▲ Aspect of the extraordinary session of the general council of the INE last Thursday.Photo Luis Castillo
Fabiola Martinez
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 13, 2025, p. 6
Ten presidencies of local public electoral organizations (Oples) indicated that they will not attend the meeting next Monday in which the head of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, will deliver the suggestions of the state bodies to the commission for electoral reform.
Given this implicit and explicit decline, the Executive Secretary of the INE, Claudia Arlett Espino, sent an official letter (INE/SE/3802/2025) to suggest that if the presidents of the Oples will not attend, the counselors representing the electoral institute of their entity will attend.
Therefore, the letter is addressed to the councils of the electoral bodies of Chiapas, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Colima, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Sinaloa, Yucatán and Zacatecas.
“Due to the fact that some presidencies do not have the possibility of attending or their confirmation of attendance at the meeting referred to before the presidential commission was not received, if it is considered viable, we request the support of some councilors that are members of their public electoral body; for this purpose, confirmation is requested in accordance with the previous paragraph, no later than December 12, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.,” the official letter reads.
In this way, it is reaffirmed that the central proposal of the INE, as rector of the national electoral system, will be delivered on January 12 of next year, at a time when the presidential commission for the reform is possibly well advanced in the preparation of the initiative.
The above is because the closing of the public hearings occurred on December 10; Meanwhile, the More-na parliamentary group said this week that there could be an extraordinary period in January to resolve the electoral reform, in case the commission concludes its work in the current month.
Divisions persist in the INE due to multiple issues; The most recent reason is due to the content of a document prepared at the request of Guadalupe Taddei, which was circulated among her colleagues on Monday of this week.
The “Proposal for regulatory improvement” (title of the text) talks about “updating rules and procedures,” whose approach did not convince the councilors, most of whom – including people identified as allies of Taddei – said that it was only a summary of the tables held at the INE in hotels in the southern area of Mexico City, but lacked legal and technical rigor.
Yesterday the INE had to issue a new statement to confirm whether Taddei will attend on Monday with the presidential commission to deliver the documents that the groups sent him since last October 12 through public protocol events in which specialists on the subject such as counselors, magistrates and electoral prosecutors participated, as well as the members of the Oples themselves, especially in light of the statement by President Claudia Sheinbaum about the need to reduce spending for the political-electoral sector.
The INE said in yesterday’s bulletin that it will serve as a “bridge and facilitator” of the proposals received, “without invading powers.”
