“We are going to act with dignity and have them vote against it. But we have our Plan B, they are not going to get away with it, and they tell us: ‘well, we do vote, but give us an advisor.’ We’re not going to give in, huh? We are not going to give up anything,” said the morenista.
“Since it cannot be included in the Constitution, immediately and we are already working on Plan B, which are secondary laws,” he explained.
It is an insult to the people of Puebla and to the entire country that an INE counselor earns more than 400,000 pesos a month. We are not going to betray the people. The Electoral Reform is not up for negotiation. The Homeland is not sold, the Homeland defends itself. Thank you Zacatlán for having us. pic.twitter.com/guflXNCSSE
— Ignacio Mier Velazco (@NachoMierV)
November 20, 2022
He recalled that for each article of the Constitution there is a law that regulates it. Article 41 of the Constitution contains the norms for the National Electoral Institute (INE), democracy and the parties and from there derive seven laws, which Morena seeks to modify, he said.
“We are going to reform these seven laws and we are going to guarantee, respecting the Constitution, that the parties have fewer resources and that the INE spends less. We are going to remove them from their budget, with savings, with austerity and empathy with the people of Mexico, we are going to reduce their operating expenses so that they do not hurt the economy, ”he said.
According to Morena, among the modifications that could be made through secondary laws, is the reduction in the structure of the INE at the national level -with the merger of its Organization commission with the Training commission-, with which It could lower the agency’s operating expenses, as well as the establishment of decentralized bodies – non-permanent state councils.
Although the formula for estimating party financing is at the constitutional level, austerity criteria can be established, says the party founded by President López Obrador.
In addition, terms would be established in which the deputies could be promoted for their re-election, a point that generated a confrontation with the INE in 2021, but in which the Legislature had to issue secondary legislation, however, it has not done so.
Among others, the seven laws that would be impacted are the General Law on Electoral Institutions and Procedures (Legipe), the General Law on Political Parties, the General Law on the System of Appeals in Electoral Matters, the General Law on Electoral Crimes, the Federal Law of Popular Consultation and the General Law of Social Communication.
On Wednesday the legislators that make up the Boards of Directors of the Political-Electoral Reform, Constitutional Points and Governance and Population commissions are summoned to the Chamber of Deputies to prepare the session of united commissions, until the following week.
The main point of the agenda in the board of directors is the presentation and circulation of the draft opinion with a draft decree that reforms, adds and repeals various provisions of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, in electoral matters.
In accordance with the regulations of the Chamber, the opinion must circulate five days before the ruling session. The commissions, it is estimated, will be summoned to meet again on Tuesday, November 29 for the approval of the opinion and its sending to the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies, so that its presentation to the plenary session can be programmed, it is estimated that on Wednesday 30 or Thursday, December 1.
