Unanimously, the National Electoral Institute (INE) declared valid and definitive the electoral roll and the nominal list of voters that will be used in the Presidential Mandate Revocation Consultation to be held on April 10, a process in which 92 million 823 thousand 216 million will be able to participate citizens.
In a special session, the president of the Institute, Lorenzo Córdova, said that declaring both documents valid and definitive “confirms that the INE is guaranteeing the universality of suffrage.”
He pointed out that every citizen registered on the nominal list and who has his valid credential “will be able to participate on April 10 to freely issue his opinion on the Revocation of the Mandate of the President of the Republic and that he will have a ballot waiting for him and waiting for him at the voting center that corresponds to him.”
He recalled that the total number of citizens registered in the nominal list of voters “we are the ones who will be able to vote on April 10 and is the basis for calculating the 40% that article 35 of the Constitution establishes as a percentage so that the results of that exercise are binding,” he said.
Córdova considered that the advances that Mexico has made in the area of registration “allow us to contrast the diametrical difference between the voter registration we have today and that used in the era of pre-democratic Mexico.”
He said that stories about people who “voted more than once, people who were excluded from the register to prevent them from voting or deceased who were voting” are phenomena that, thanks to the robust electoral system that makes the electoral roll and the nominal list their axis, “have remained in the past and have been eradicated from the organization of elections in Mexico”.
In addition, he recalled that, in order to facilitate the participation of citizens in the Revocation process, the INE General Council approved that credentials that lost effect on January 1, 2022 can “be used in such processes, as in local elections this year.”
On Wednesday, the INE reported that the agency's Complaints and Complaints Commission issued a preventive measure against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the dissemination of government propaganda during the electoral ban, as well as the promotion of the consultation process for the Revocation of Mandate by citizens.
The INE issued a precautionary measure to the president ordering him to withdraw the press conference given from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) and any material that disseminates the opening and operation of the latter.
According to the Institute, during the morning press conference on 21 March, held at the premises of St. Lucia Airport, government activities linked to government achievements and actions were disseminated.
He stressed that the coverage, investment and benefits that this work entails, could constitute government propaganda prohibited during the Revocation process.
For this reason, the Complaints Committee gave a period of three hours for the president, as well as the general coordinator of Social Communication and Presidential Speaker, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, to carry out “the actions, procedures and steps necessary to eliminate the audio, audiovisual and stenographic versions of the conference” last Monday. Otherwise, the files can be modified in the same period.
On Wednesday, members of the Va por México coalition (PRI-PAN-PRD) went to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to promote actions of unconstitutionality against the so-called “decree”, which allows public servants to speak about the revocation of the mandate even in times of electoral closure.
In recent weeks, López Obrador has criticized the INE, which he accused of not wanting to promote the consultation to revoke the mandate.
The consultation, resulting from the Federal Mandate Revocation Law enacted in September, causes controversy because the president himself is pushing it, and the opposition has accused him of “a permanent campaign” to mobilize his ranks.
With information from EFE
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