The president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, He indicated that they will fight to prevent a possible reform from disappearing the Permanent District Boards and the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP).
Taddei opts to avoid reforms
In a press conference, the counselor pointed out that once the electoral reform initiative was presented, next Monday, will activate an immediate work table and they will ask the reviewing Chamber to take into account their technical and operational opinion.
You may also be interested in: Mexico and the US establish a Working Group on Extraditions
He stated that once the initiative is published, they will carry out an analysis of the operational and budgetary impact, since until now, he said, only the decalogue presented in the National Palace is known.
He asserted that the INE will not have a political position on the reform, but rather “it must always be seen through the lens of the technical part” and present hard, historical and statistical data to the legislators, for example, on the importance of the District Boards for the electoral system.
Regarding the disappearance of the PREP, he indicated that the INE will not fight for that tool as such, but because the citizens have a reliable instrument to know preliminary results on the same day as Election Day.
“The idea of the disappearance of the PREP has to do with starting the Computations immediately, if it is approved by 2027, the work must be very fast,” he said.
‘Without PREP, there is no trust’
He indicated that with the PREP, although it had no legal connection, it served for citizens to monitor “how the results are progressing from the district, municipality, State and country”, which generated confidence in them, so if it disappears “we would have to create a new tool.”
He stated that “what cannot happen is that Mexico does not have information on Election Day, so we will take it as a challenge.”
Regarding the new formula that is proposed to designate 200 multi-member deputies, he indicated that it does not have a “little focus that tells us about the future”, because without the reform initiative, only assumptions and imaginations can be given, which is why he indicated that the INE must be cautious.
He considered that “once the reform was known we can tell what the technical difficulties are and in terms of resources the impact and request a technical working meeting with the corresponding commissions”.
He stated that the reform decalogue does include points requested by the INE such as inspection, regulation of social networks and Artificial Intelligence.
Salary reduction ‘does not impact you’
Regarding the reduction in salaries of electoral officials, she indicated that it does not impact her personally because she already earns less than the President.
“The INE will have to provide all the technical arguments to demonstrate the importance of the meeting, this is what we must put in front of the decision makers,” he asserted.
He warned that Congress has only two months to make the changes and for the Electoral reform to apply in 2027.
The president of the INE stated that it will be the Internal Control Body that will define whether there is a conflict of interest of the Director of Administration, Jesús Octavio González, after he was a contractor of the Institute.
Leave a Reply