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López Obrador proposes an electoral reform to replace the INE and eliminate the plurinominal deputies

2022-04-28T16:17:10.733Z


The president of Mexico sends his project to Congress this Thursday, in which he contemplates eliminating positions of popular representation and electoral advisers


The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, during his morning press conference, in Mexico City. Mario Guzmán (EFE)

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced this Thursday that he will send his electoral reform project to Congress.

The initiative seeks to reform 18 articles of the Constitution and seven transitory articles.

In addition, it proposes to replace the INE with a body called the National Institute of Elections and Consultations, and contemplates the reduction in the number of plurinominal deputies (elected under the principle of proportional representation, without direct vote) in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate of the Republic.

In the president's new proposal, the new electoral institute would have seven members who will be elected by popular vote, from a list of 60 candidates presented by the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers.

Currently, the INE has 11 councilors who are elected by consensus by Congress.

The Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López, has given details of the project, and has assured that it is the response to an "old claim of the citizens".

"We have finished the proposal for an initiative for a democratic reform rather than an electoral reform," he said during the morning conference.

The project would concentrate the elections in the Federation to eliminate the autonomous electoral bodies of the 32 States of the Republic.

In addition, popular or plurinominal legislators would be eliminated, and the Chamber of Deputies would go from having 500 to 300 members.

The Senate would have only 96 of the 128 representatives that there are currently.

The reform also proposes changes to local congresses.

The proposal proposes that there be a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 45 members, while the councilors of the municipalities would also decrease.

The Mexican government has argued that this reform would save 24,000 million pesos (about 1,200 million dollars).

And it must be approved by two-thirds of Congress.

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