2022 elections: Va por Hidalgo candidate denounced for “omitting” pre-campaign expenditures

The New Alliance Party (Panal) filed a complaint with the National Electoral Institute (INE) against the candidate of the coalition Va por Hidalgo - made up of the PRI, PAN and PRD - Carolina Viggiano Austria, for having omitted expenses in his pre-campaign report.

The local political party accused that the candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the National Action Party (PAN) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) has violated the law by committing fraud by failing to report all expenses to the electoral authority.

However, after discussing the case in plenary, the institute only imposed a financial fine against the PRI and PRD, leaving the PAN aside from this ruling, after finding that propaganda expenditures on public roads were not effectively monitored.

A few days after this, Nueva Alianza filed an appeal to the local INE board in Hidalgo, accusing that the PRI's registration should have been removed, as happened in 2021 when Felix Salgado Macedonio and Raúl Morón lost the opportunity to compete in Guerrero and Michoacán, respectively.

For the local party, what they did in the PRI and the PRD was allegedly tried to grant the resources of the ordinary parties of the political institutes in order to “strategically” prevent them from being counted in the pre-campaign.

Finally, despite having already started the political campaigns, they again asked the local authorities to cancel the candidacy, because by accepting that it continues, “the proper development of the electoral process and the democratic system of the country is being violated”.

However, despite the financial fine received by two of the three parties in the Va por Hidalgo candidacy, Viggiano Austria began campaigning in Tula, Hidalgo, accompanied by some leaders such as Jesús Zambrano, leader of the PRD.

At 00:00 hours this Sunday, April 3, the former PRI national secretary pointed out that, for years, the municipalities of the entity have experienced abandonment by the federal administration, but that, if they win, that will change because it will represent a government of several parties and not with a single vision.

“Here is a brave woman who is not going to allow another outrage... that's why we are here, because of those abandoned women who don't have a shelter to turn to when they experience violence; we are here for children who don't have medicines,” she said from the public square of Tula de Allende.

Finally, he questioned the Mandate Revocation Consultation that will take place next Sunday, April 10, and ruled that such an exercise will represent an unnecessary expense for the public treasury.

It should be recalled that on June 5, local elections will be held in the country, in which the governorships of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas will be renewed; as well as the 39 municipalities in Durango and the Congress of Quintana Roo.

According to the National Electoral Institute (INE), as of January 28, 2022, 93 million 129,048 Hidalgo citizens are registered in the Federal Register of Voters, of which 11,708,032 will have the right to cast their votes in the six states where the elections will be held.

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