The INE orders Claudia Sheinbaum to distance herself from propaganda pints

Fabiola Martinez

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday December 3, 2022, p. 6

The Complaints and Complaints Commission of the National Electoral Institute (INE) ordered the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, to distance herself from the pints that are supposedly part of a orchestrated campaign in favor of a candidacy in the 2024 contest, which at this time is illegal, since there are still 10 months left for that electoral process to begin.

As part of these precautionary measures, the official must ask her supporters to avoid making this type of demonstration, whose origin, authorship and financing the electoral authority has not been able to clarify. There is an atypical advertising strategythe commission said.

The conferences given in recent weeks by Sheinbaum were not grounds for the application of precautionary measures.

The INE warned that the dissemination of messages, through the placement of propaganda, tending to position their name or surname, could represent an anticipated act of campaigning and use of public resources.

However, it will be the specialized chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) that will resolve the matter in substance.

The resolutions of the TEPJF in which public servants are involved are relevant because there is a sentence of the superior chamber of this same court in which links the authorities to take measures when an official is a repeat offender in electoral crimes; In the end, this situation could be the cause of loss of the honest way of livingone of the requirements to be registered as a candidate for a position of popular election.

Meanwhile, based on the powers of the INE, yesterday he released the message that the official must publish within 24 hours at the latest, both in the official accounts of the capital’s government and in the personal ones:

“The undersigned has learned of the existence and use of the #EsClaudia hastag in different spaces in Mexico City and other cities in the country, either through banners, wall painting or on social networks. In this sense, once again and as I have done on previous occasions, he categorically stated that neither my servant nor the government that I head have any direct or indirect connection with the phrase ‘It’s Claudia’, similar phrases or with some aspect related to its dissemination”.

The complaint in this case, promoted by Movimiento Ciudadano and the PAN, includes marking fences and placing tarps in 11 entities of the nation, as well as the dissemination of messages on social networks that read: #It’s her, isClaudiaY for the transformation to continue.

The determination of the INE Complaints Commission indicates that From a preliminary analysis, it is warned that an orchestrated campaign could be faced with the aim of illegally influencing citizen preferences in the face of the 2023-2024 federal process..

The above, because there is a graphic identity in the denounced propaganda, which has been disseminated in various states of the Republic, and in most cases anonymously.

The counselors said that there are elements related to anticipated proselytism, by profiling, in this case, a public servant, through crews of workers operating in the streets.