Plan B
In an interview, Robledo Ruiz stated in his opinion that there will be issues that cannot be modified from secondary laws since they are provided for in the Constitution, among them the form of integration of the Congresses, the integration of the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the number of its directors.
“In effect, it is not possible to modify from secondary laws what is in the constitution” but in secondary laws there are “a lot that could be modified: for example, propaganda, restrictions so that once their positions conclude and for a certain time counselors or magistrates, for the interest of the State, cannot exercise their profession or trade in the same matter”, he explains.
However, he asked to wait to see what issues the presidential initiative raises in Plan B, since “this comes when Plan A has disappeared, not yet.”
The deputy of Morena Hamlet García Almaguer, a member of the Political-Electoral Reform Commission, affirmed that although he does not know the content that the Executive prepares as Plan B, but confirms that points that come in the Constitution will not be violated.
The legislator outlined some of the issues that, without affecting the Magna Carta, could be modified from changes to secondary laws: the structure of the INE, for example, merging the training and electoral organization directorates.
The control tasks carried out by the INE could also be integrated “with those already reviewed by the Local Electoral Public Bodies” and the duplication that exists in the registry of candidates could also be eliminated, in order to have “a single system.”
In addition, affirmative actions could be raised to the level of law so that people from native peoples, Afro-Mexicans, people with disabilities and migrants can access positions of popular representation.
Today these quotas exist due to rulings of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) and administrative agreements of the INE.
Even issues related to the exercise of party financing could be modified. The formula to allocate the amounts for the parties is constitutional, “but how it is spent can be modified, because today there is a lot of lax spending on very relevant issues or without verification or increase spending for the political leadership of women,” said the Morenista .
The deputy from Morena explained that Plan B will have three sources: what is rescued from the initiative for constitutional reforms, “what the Executive sends us” and the proposals of legislators from the Together We Make History coalition.
“We with our allies are going to build the secondary schools”, regardless of what the Legal Counsel of the Presidency includes.
