Fabiola Martínez and Lilian Hernández
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 20, 2024, p. 5
The budget cut to the National Electoral Institute (INE) will not mean layoffs of its local structure, but rather the migration to a new system for organizing elections, said the president of the body, Guadalupe Taddei.
We proposed in these days of budget cuts not to touch the local executive boards or the district boards, knowing that there is the heaviest workload operationally speaking.
he said in a meeting with the leaders of the so-called decentralized structure.
Taddei said that hurts
the reduction of electoral trainers and supervisors – expected to go from 50 thousand to 30 thousand temporary collaborators – and the failure to install 172 thousand polling stations throughout the country, instead of which voting centers
, joined boxes
either section boxes
as it was called at the time.
Perhaps this will allow us to migrate towards a new way of doing electoral processes; Everything is worth rethinking, the operating model too; What we cannot stop doing is the constitutional mandate that we have at this moment, whether or not we agree with the reform of the Judiciary.
he stressed.
Despite the budgetary context, he assured them that they can go calmly to celebrate Christmas, to return in January and work against the clock in preparing the election of ministers, magistrates and judges, scheduled for next June 1, the same day that municipal elections will be held in Durango and Veracruz.
Privately, he expressed his confidence that this process would be successful and asked them to do their job. without fanfare
rather prudently.
Well, I am very optimistic; I do believe that we are at the right time to show who we are again. I do believe that we can defend our work that we know how to do and that we do very well; I do trust that we are going to do a job of excellence in this election of the Judicial Branch
he expressed.
In the private meeting also attended by counselors Arturo Castillo, Martín Faz and Dania Ravel, among other officials, as well as the head of the Internal Control Body of the INE, Víctor Hugo Cervantes, the president acknowledged that when they planned the work for 2025 they did not They expected such a sharp cut.
However, he added, the General Executive Board – made up of the main officials – is rethinking the way the institute works, reconfiguring and migrating to different models, starting with an administrative proposal so as not to deplete human resources.
He pointed out that when the budget cuts began we set a condition
not to affect the personnel issue
nor the operation of the elections, both the extraordinary ones of the Judicial Branch and the municipal ones.
Likewise, do not affect the daily production of the voting card and, therefore, the citizen service modules, much less neglect the inspection task.
