The “little store”
To prevent the misuse of resources, since 2015 the parties are obliged to return to Tesofe the campaign financing that they had not exercised, and since 2018 they were also obliged to return the public resources that they receive each year for ordinary and specific activities but that they did not use in the year in which they received it, as well as any amount of resources whose expenditure they did not verify.
These norms were established by the TEPJF in the sentences SUP-RAP-647/2015 and RAP-758/2017 issued, it was said, for the sake of the principles of “austerity, rationality, annuality and accountability of political parties” and Morena being the party that fought for those returns to be a reality, at that time being an opposition party.
But already being a government, in 2020 the party did not return any resources of its own free will and avoided the reinstatement to which it was bound by those sentences, thanks to the fact that it created an express trust to save resources that it did not use.
On December 28, 2020, two days before the end of the year and with it the term to exercise all of its national and local financing expired, or be forced to return it to the Federal Treasury (Tesofe), Morena constituted a management and investment trust with BBVA Bancomer, SA to save the resources not disbursed.
In this account, he concentrated resources accumulated at the national level and from 20 entities, and according to the agreement, signed by the Morenista national leadership – less than a month after Mario Delgado took office as its president -, the money would be for the purchase of real estate or the remodeling of these.
Delgado had barely taken office on November 5 of that year, so practically one of his first decisions was to retain the resources, but the agreement did establish the amounts that each State Executive Committee (CEE) would contribute and it was determined that these would define the place , amount and characteristics of the property that would be acquired or remodeled.
Thus the following year, in 2021, if five properties located in Baja California Sur, Mexico City, Tamaulipas and Morelos were acquired.
This was thanks to the fact that in 2020 and 2021 the CEN of Morena received 297 million 398,000 pesos in transfers from the state committees and in that same period received another 75 million 63,000 pesos in transfers in cash or in kind, but that used to purchase real estate.
However, according to the review made by the INE to the 2020 financial year, of the 733.239 million pesos that the Morena CEN received in transfers “it did not justify what they were used for.”
With this operation, Morena freed the return to Tesofe of the resources from transfers from the CEEs, based on the fact that the INE Inspection Regulation issued in 2018 -by order of the TEPJF- allowed the parties to manage their resources via trust and exercise them in the future fiscal year, but exclusively to guarantee the rights of third parties against the payment commitments already acquired by the parties.
Thus, party trusts had already been regulated but their creation was foreseen only to manage reserves that guaranteed payments already committed to suppliers, remodeling or purchase of real estate, labor liabilities or contingencies, but it was not allowed that they also accumulate resources from the parties. 32 CEE partisans.
