Every conflict in the INE can be resolved: Taddei

The president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, admitted the conflict with six councilors and rejected that Morena’s initiative to give constitutional character to its powers, above the General Council, would help him resolve the confrontation.

There is no internal conflict in a collegiate council that cannot be resolvedcut short in response to the initiative of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna (Morena), to include in the Constitution the power of the head of the INE to appoint officials above the General Council.

Instead, Taddei proposed accepting the decision to file a constitutional controversy against the legal changes that would allow him to appoint directors without authorization from the General Council.

–Is it uncomfortable for you to talk about differences between your advisors? –he was asked after attending the installation of the Political-Electoral Reform Commission in the Chamber of Deputies.

–No, because the referees are just that, referees. As in democracy and the daily lives of all people, there are times when we have total agreements and others when we struggle a little more to reach agreements, but they are reached.

Regarding the decision of six INE councilors to file a constitutional controversy against the aforementioned proposal by Gutiérrez Luna, Taddei asked to assume that it is a decision already made.

“From my perspective, I believe that there is not even the attribution to do so as an institutional controversy.” (sic), but it is an agreement that was made in the General Council, proposed by six councilors. You have to assimilate it, that’s the council’s agreement.

For his part, Gutiérrez Luna ruled out that his initiative could contribute to tension in the INE; He pointed out that yes generates suspicionhis project reinforces, although does not contain any new elements.

The president of the Commission, Víctor Hugo Lobo (Morena), considered it possible to carry out an electoral reform during the first half of 2025, which includes the reduction of party financing, electronic voting and the election of electoral councilors by popular vote, without proposing a eventual disappearance of the INE or the impact on its autonomy.