The deputies of Morena in the joint commissions for Political-Electoral Reform, Constitutional Points, and Governance and Population of the lower house approved, with 62 votes in favor and 48 against, the opinion of the electoral reform proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and they turned it over to the plenary session of that sovereignty to schedule its general discussion, despite the fact that the opposition legislators assured that the document will not pass.
Under the premise “The INE is touched, reformed and transformed”, Contrary to the slogan of the citizen march that on November 13 expressed its opposition to the reform, the Morenista deputy Yolis Jiménez Ramírez defended the president’s initiative by pointing out that it addresses a demand from society, in addition to contributing “to building a democracy at the height of the nation”.
Despite the fact that the opposition legislators reiterated that the decision will not be approved in plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies, since the official party and its allies, the Labor and Green Ecologist parties, do not have enough votes to reform the Constitution , the morenistas insisted on the alleged benefits of the president’s proposal.
With this reform “at no time is democracy put at risk, the figure of pluris (plurinominal deputies) is going to end, no more spaces for cuates or quotas”, affirmed legislator Jiménez Ramírez.
But this statement is not true. since the legislators of proportional or multi-member representation do not disappear in the initiative of López Obrador approved in the commissionswhich proposes reducing the total number of deputies from 500 to 300, making them all multi-member, who would be indirectly elected, through lists proposed by the political parties in each of the federative entities.
The opinion approved by the deputies of Morena, who have a majority in the commissions, proposes to reform and add articles 35, 41, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 60, 63, 73, 99, 110, 111, 115, 116 and 122 of the Constitution, creating a new scaffolding for the Mexican electoral system in which, for example, political parties would only receive public financing at election time, allowing them to be financed by individuals.
In the same way, it “unifies” and centralizes the electoral authorities, eliminating the Local Public Organizations (OPLES), which in each state of the country are in charge of organizing the elections for governor, state deputies, and municipal presidents, among others.
In addition, the National Electoral Institute (INE) disappears and creates a National Institute of Elections and Consultations (INEC), whose councilors would be elected by the citizens, based on proposals made by the president, the two Chambers of Congress, and the Supreme Court. of Justice of the Nation.
recoil rejection
The deputy of Morena, Ismael Brito, said in the commissions session that the president’s reform seeks to save resources, so that they can be used for social programs. From his perspective, these changes are urgent because the salary received by INE directors is not austere. “Since there are salaries well above what the President of the Republic earns,” the legislator complained.
On his side, Jesús Fernando Morales Flores, deputy of the National Action Party (PAN), affirmed that the ruling does not take into account any of the proposals of experts, citizens, and opposition legislators, despite the fact that various forums were held to address the topic.
We will vote against the only thing that is sought is to politicize and take advantage of his new institute so that it remains at the service of Morena, and the electoral political vision prevails over justice and the popular will of a single man, (this) represents a setback,” he asserted.
A similar opinion was expressed by the deputy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Cynthia Iliana López Castro, who assured that the legislators of her party will not support the initiative of President López Obrador, which will mean success for the citizenry.
“It will be established that the citizenry won, that the INE is not touched, and it will remain strong because the opposition defended it. Today the PRI makes an alliance with the citizenry and for democracy. We will fight in plenary, the reform will not pass because it sought to weaken the National Electoral Institute, the PRI said.
Likewise, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), when establishing its position in the voice of the deputy Elizabeth Pérez Valdez, considered that in the opinion there are various inconsistencies, since on the one hand it proposes the disappearance of the INE, but at the same time it requests that this organism be the one that carries out the process of election of the new electoral advisers.
“In the PRD we do take into account what the specialists who have shaped democracy in the country tell us, We will be here to defend democracy and make it perfect when dictatorships want to impose themselves,” Pérez Valdez asserted.
Another party that voted against the ruling was Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), stressing that the document opens the door for political institutes to receive resources from crime.
The presidential proposal limits the voice of the people “by restricting popular representation, centralizing the electoral processes, deceiving the people with the disappearance of multi-members when a multi-member system is being promoted, as well as making room for drug trafficking in campaign financing.” , which misrepresents the concept of public financing of the same, said the deputy of MC, Salvador Caro Cabrera.
The opposition legislators, who remained in the minority in the commissions, announced that there will be hundreds of reservations and motions in the discussion in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies, where the ruling will be rejected if the PRI keeps its promise not to accompany the electoral reform. of the president.
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