AMLO’s electoral reform advances in the Chamber of Deputies

Deputies from Morena and their allies endorsed the United Commissions for Political Reform, Constitutional Points and Governance the electoral reform promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The votes against the opposition deputies were not enough to prevent the opinion that proposes to modify the National Electoral Institute (INE) and transform it into the National Institute of Elections and Consultations (INEC) goes to discussion in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies.

The opinion was endorsed with 20 votes in favor of the Morenista deputies and allies, in the Electoral Reform Commission; with 21 votes in favor and 14 against the Constitutional Points Commission, and with 21 votes in favor and 16 against in the Governance Commission.

In accumulated, 62 votes were registered in favor and 47 against.

The electoral reform is expected to be discussed this Tuesday, November 29 in San Lázaro.

The Morenista deputies argued that the endorsed proposal seeks to reduce the costs of the INE’s operation.

During the debate in Commissions, the opposition deputies of the PAN, AT, PRD and Citizen Movement (MC) warned that the initiative would not pass in plenary.

It should be remembered that on October 24, the Venice Commission, an advisory body of the European Council made up of independent experts in the field of constitutional rightpublished an analysis of the initiative of electoral reform where he warned about different risks.

The Venice Commission He was of the opinion that the proposed system for appointing directors of the new National Institute of Elections and Consultations (INEC) and magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal, “does not provide sufficient guarantees of their independence and impartiality” regarding the campaigns and elections in Mexico.

He also highlighted that López Obrador’s initiative proposes changes aimed at reducing some of the powers of the current INE, the most risky being the linking of the directors of the new INEC with politicians.

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