The possible consultation to revoke or ratify the head of government Claudia Sheinbaum would cost 155 million 398,414 pesos, according to the expenditure budget project approved this Friday by the General Council of the Electoral Institute of Mexico City (IECM).
The proposal of the electoral body is to exercise a budget for next year of 1,955 million 20,834 pesos that includes operating expenses, ordinary public financing for political parties, consultation on the participatory budget for the next three years, the election of citizen participation commissions, an item for an emerging citizen initiative and the eventual mandate revocation consultation.
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Breakdown:
- Operating expenses of the Ordinary Program of the IECM 2022: $ 1,048,992,005.00
- Expenses for Ordinary Public Financing of political parties: $ 472,545,300.00
- Citizen Consultation on Participatory Budget 2022: $ 218,592,200.00
- Citizen Consultation on Participatory Budgeting 2023 and 2024: $ 4,927,612.00
- Election of Community Participation Commissions: $ 4,315,827.00
- Emerging Citizen Initiative: $ 50,249,476.00
- Mandate Revocation Consultation: $ 155,398,414.00
The budget proposal will be presented by the electoral advisers to the Congress of Mexico City, the body in charge of approving the economic package of the capital.
The presiding counselor Patricia Avendaño Durán highlighted that “at all times it was sought to maintain an integral adherence to the principles of rationality, austerity and efficiency, as well as to the criteria and guidelines established by the National Electoral Institute (INE)” for the design of the expenditure budget proposal for 2022.
It is achieved, he said, to ensure the ordinary program, the processes of citizen participation and “some preparation tasks linked to the organization work of the Local Ordinary Electoral Process 2023-2024, particularly that related to the delimitation of the circumscriptions of the territorial demarcations of the city, which on this occasion includes a process of Consultation with Resident Peoples, Neighborhoods, Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Communities ”.
“It should not be lost sight of the fact that the projects presented before this Council respond to unprecedented circumstances in the history of our country and our city, given the possibility that for the first time an exercise to revoke the mandate in which the and Citizens will pronounce themselves in favor or against the permanence in office of the person who holds the Executive Power, an act that undoubtedly marks an important milestone in the evolution of our democratic culture ”, emphasized Avendaño Durán.
In its session this Friday, the Electoral Institute of Mexico City also approved the destruction of documentation and electoral materials used in the 2020-2021 Ordinary Local Electoral Process that cannot be reused, as well as the declaration of loss of registration of the Equity, Freedom and Gender Party and the loss of the Labor Party’s right to receive local public funding.
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