Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, March 11, 2022, p. 7
The Complaints and Complaints Commission of the National Electoral Institute (INE) rejected the request to adopt precautionary measures against the organization Follow Democracy and other groups for the alleged hiring of billboards, alleged broadcasting of spots on radio and television, as well as personalized promotion for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. It was not proven that public resources were used to finance this promotional campaign associated with the revocation of the mandate so that the Chief Executive remains in office.
The commission considered that there are no elements that would serve as a basis for estimating that the association Que Sigue la Democracia AC violates the rules for disseminating the revocation of mandate and invades the exclusive competence of the INE to promote the exercise of citizen participation.
Although the project was unanimously approved, the councilors agreed to warn about a possible fraud of the law due to the lack of knowledge of the origin of the resources with which this campaign is being financed (issue of the field of control). Counselor Claudia Zavala expressed her concern because we may be facing an atypical crime, simulation or fraud of the law. I am concerned that an advertising strategy is seen through an identity and colors used by Morena
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Although several of the organization’s leaders are not formally leaders of Morena, he mentioned, the leader of Que Sigue la Democracia has direct ties to Morena. She warned after this campaign in legal appearance, there may be a fraud to the law.
Counselor Ciro Murayama recognized the inadmissibility of precautionary measures, but stressed that today a central aspect of democratic processes is the transparency of the resources with which they are financed. However, he stressed that it is before an unusual phenomenon of the emergence of an anonymous campaign with unknown economic funds to launch a political campaign in the country, influencing the process, without knowing where the money comes from
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