“That the reform is done with adequate information and diagnoses and not with philias or phobias or even worse from grudges or grievances are these real or invented, because if a reform is done not with the head, but with the liver, then we have a problem guaranteed in that sense,” he said.
In this event, where he participated with other former electoral courses, he commented that the reform must be the result of a “broad consensus”, where oppositions are taken into account and not only is the official party.
“When we talk about the rules of the game, the majorities that the law requires to be approved are not enough; of course numerical conditions that the Constitution itself establishes, but when talking about the rules of the game, it is required that the vast majority of political actors accept the conditions to which they will have to be subject,” he said.
He said that if the rules of the game arise from the imposition of some political force, these rules will cause problems and disqualifications, so he argued that an electoral reform must collect the concerns of the oppositions and not only the predominant political force.
He also mentioned that if there was no electoral reform, nothing happened, because the current electoral system works “well”, because it allows the renewal of public authorities to occur periodically and peacefully.
“If there is no electoral reform, nothing is going to happen; our electoral system endures a while and would allow the quality of free and authentic choices to be preserved, (but) if there is a reform and subsana the problems we have today, much better,” he said.
The former president of the former Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), Leonardo Valdés Zurita, also argued that for an electoral reform to succeed, it must be the product of the political consensus and the exchange of ideas and diagnoses to advance in the improvement of the political-electoral institutes.
In this meeting, he spoke about Morena’s narrative that democracy is “face” in Mexico; However, the former councilor explained that the country spends more in his government.
“Mexico is the tenth second economy in the world and what it means is that it needs a government that makes a public spending that allows this economy to work,” he said.
Meanwhile, José Woldenberg, who did not attend but sent his speech, mentioned that the electoral law must be debated and agreed by the “players”, because he said that if that does not happen, the legitimacy of the reform and the commitment of the parties with the legislation will be weakened.
In addition, he recalled that the latest electoral laws were the result of a consensus among the political diversity of the Congress of the Union, so he said that this is an antecedent that should be “honored” by the current government.
“It is necessary to remember that the eight preceding electoral reforms, from 1977 to 2014, took into account the demands and demands of the oppositions and were progressive,” he emphasized.
