The National Electoral Institute (INE) published a report specifying the possible effects on this body (operational capacity and reliability) could have if the AMLO Plan B enter into force, since the restructuring proposed by the so-called Fourth Transformation (4T), in the eyes of General adviceIt would jeopardize your job.
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In 164 pages, the decentralized body explains how the modifications to the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (LGIPE), General of Political Parties (LGPP) and Organic of the Judiciary (LOPJ) and the promulgation of the General Law on the Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters (LGMIME) could have a negative impact on democracy.
According to the report, the package of reforms to the president’s political-electoral system Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) affects electoral deadlines, free competition, the territorial presence of the INE in the republic (particularly the installation of polling stations), violates autonomy, hinders auditingputs the personal data of those registered at risk and compromises the counting of votes.
Of all these observations, where the report elaborated the most was on tax matters, since 11 sub-points were highlighted as areas of opportunity:
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a) National System of Registration of Pre-candidates and Candidates
b) Sanctions in terms of inspection
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The Morena reform alters the method for the installation of polling stations and their citizen integration, with which the risk that the counting of the votes generates uncertainty is maintained, explained the president of the INE
c) Interpretation of standards
d) Inspection of income and expenses
e) Delegation of the control power to Local Public Bodies (OPLEs)
f) Unlimited transfers of local and federal resources
g) Waiver of public financing and remainders
h) Generation of savings
i) Provisions may not be issued once the electoral processes have begun.
j) Notifications of failures or interruptions in the online accounting system
k) Transgression of the timely, agile, expeditious and accessible control model of the resources of political parties
Likewise, given the budget cut, the INE warned that “the labor rights of INE public servants who stop working for reasons of eliminating structures and jobs would be seriously compromised.”
“It implies the liquidation of at least 5 thousand 080 people”
Along with numerous criticisms, the Institute pointed out that in order to carry out a comprehensive restructuring such as the one proposed with the AMLO Electoral Reformit is necessary to carry out an organizational diagnosis, this so that if savings are generated, it does not compromise the organizational capacity of the affected organisms, in this case, the INE.
And it is that, in the opinion of the organism, the thinning of the structure and the cutting or reconfiguration of procedures entails a impact on organic and procedural guarantees that guarantee the legitimacy of electoral processes. In this sense, he maintained that it is more about political opportunism than technical criteria in action.
It should be remembered that Plan B, in relation to the operation of the INE, has the intention of eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and duplication of functions. For example, between the OPLEs and the Institute there are tasks that are carried out and audited repeatedly, so the presidential initiative represents a saving of 5 billion pesos annually compared to currently established mechanisms.
In addition to this, it is highlighted that the AMLO Plan Athe reform of a constitutional nature, supposed a saving of 15 billion pesosbut this did not pass the first filter, which was the Chamber of Deputies, so Plan B was launched in December, which was partially approved and it is expected that, with the restart of ordinary sessions, the process will be completed.
Finally, it is highlighted that hamlet garciafederal deputy for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), through a brief statement to the media, specified that the Electoral Reform does not violate the Constitution Policy of the United Mexican States (CPEUM), so it will probably pass the filter that supposes the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to be ratified; In addition, regarding the strangeness manifested by Ciro Murayama and Lorenzo Córdova, he maintained that the cuts are so that the INE does not enjoy privileges and that, to resolve the alleged lack of resources to guarantee its constitutional obligations they lack imagination.
