Guadalupe Taddei does not see the disappearance of the INE despite AMLO’s statements

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He insisted that before completing his six-year term he will send to the Congress of the Union a package of reforms in which, in addition to salaries and pensions, he will seek disappear autonomous organizationssince according to their opinion they are very burdensome for the country.

“So, we have to do this administrative reform. Furthermore, imagine what we are going to save because we are not going to continue maintaining those factious, onerous, anti-popular organizations,” he expressed in his morning conference this Thursday, January 18.

According to the head of the Executive Branch, through an administrative reform he will seek to eliminate the following organizations: National Institute of Access to Information and Data Protection (Inai); Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT); Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece); Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE); National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH); National Electoral Institute (INE).

Guadalupe Taddei Zavala, president advisor of the National Electoral Institute (INE), She indicated that she does not see a possible impact on this organization, even though Morena and the president proposed its disappearance to integrate it into the government structure with an attempt at electoral reform that was rejected by the opposition.

“I believe that this country will always need to have a National Electoral Institute. Since the existence of the IFE in 1990, I believe that we can no longer go back in this matter,” he declared to the media at the end of the General Council session this Thursday.

Despite the criticism and attacks that the Institute has received from the President of the Republic, Taddei Zavala defended that the democratic life of the country can no longer take a step back, since it has proven to organize reliable elections.

“That an autonomous institution organizes the elections is something that is already inherent to the Mexican government, we cannot move forward, therefore, I would not expect any disappearance of the National Electoral Institute,” said the Sonoran.

Despite the defense that civil society and opposition parties have carried out in favor of autonomous organizations to preserve the progress in the consolidation of a rule of law, President López Obrador insisted that February 5, the date on which which commemorates the promulgation of the Constitution, will present an ambitious package of reforms.

“We are going to continue with the same policy, we are going to make the proposal, the approach, now on February 5, it is one of the initiatives that I plan to present,” said AMLO, who explained that the functions of all autonomous organizations will return. in the hands of the federal government.

Regarding the autonomy of the INE, López Obrador criticized “the conservatives” who have gone out to the marches in defense of the INE and accused that the previous president-counselor, Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, is scheduled as the only speaker at the demonstration that will take place next February.

Look, the one who was director of the INE is not touched, Córdova, now he is going to lead a march, yes. Nothing more than that they are not going to think, eh?, that it has political, partisan purposes, no, no, no. They are independent, yes, they are from civil society, they are very concerned about democracy and the people,” he questioned in his morning conference.

In 2023, the president and Morena promoted an electoral reform so that the INE disappeared and its functions were taken over by a new institute run by the Ministry of the Interior. Because Morena did not have a qualified majority to pass the constitutional reform, the so-called “Plan B” was chosen, which consisted of modifying and reducing the current institute through secondary laws.

However, the opposition parties presented an unconstitutionality appeal before the Supreme Court, which determined by a qualified majority that the legal changes were contrary to the Constitution.