Ciro Murayama defended the INE and assured that the “decree” on propaganda does not annul the Constitution

The member of the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Ciro Murayama Rendón, once again defended the collegiate body and assured that this is the only entity empowered by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM) to disseminate the Revocation of Mandate.

Through his official Twitter account, the Doctor of Law indicated that, despite the decree published last week on government propaganda in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), article 35 of the Constitution was not amended, so the institute remains the only body that can promote the exercise before citizenship.

He also pointed out that federal and local administrations, during this period of closure, are only allowed to disseminate information on the health, education and civil protection sectors, since it called the decree an “interpretive” resource.

“A lot of noise, but the Constitution continues to say the same thing: a) Only @INEMexico can promote the revocation of the mandate and, b) from the government they can only disseminate information on health, education and civil protection. An “interpretative” decree does not annul the Constitution,” he drafted this Sunday, March 20.

It should be recalled that last Thursday, 17 March, with 67 votes in favour, 34 against and zero abstentions, the Senate of the Republic approved in general and in particular the opinion allowing officials and legislators to promote the exercise of participatory democracy to which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( AMLO) on April 10.

The ruling established an interpretation in the General Law on Electoral Procedures and the Federal Law on the Revocation of Mandate, so that the opinions and actions of public officials regarding the Revocation of Mandate are not considered as government propaganda.

A day later, the report was published in the DOF, where the amendment to the definition of the scope of the concept of government propaganda was ratified; however, this act was severely criticized by both Murayama Rendón and Córdova Vianello.

On March 18, the INE's presiding councillor, Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, accused the opponents of the electoral body and called them “liars” for creating false information about promoting the Revocation of Mandate.

Through his Twitter account, Córdova assured that it is a “falsehood” of those who claim that there will not be enough ballots at the polls tables during the democratic exercise, which has been promoted and promoted by AMLO.

However, against this background, the seats in the Senate of the Republic of the National Action Party (PAN), the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), as well as the Plural Group, announced that they will present a action of unconstitutional before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) for the “decree”.

In addition, by means of a statement, the members of the opposition bloc also announced that they will file the corresponding complaint with the Internal Control Body of the Upper House for the failure to excuse themselves from knowing and voting on a matter from which they hope to derive a personal benefit in the sanctioning procedure to which are subject to making government propaganda in the period prohibited by the Constitution.

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