The most important election in the history of Mexicodue to its scale and route, is at risk by incompetence of the worst National Electoral Institute. He is infected by the austerity policy that promoted the President Andrés Manuel López Obradorwhich dehydrated him, and for the incompetence of several of his advisorsled by Guadalupe Taddeiimported from Sonora, where it was incapable of organizing the local processes that fell under its responsibility, and which came to the Presidency of the autonomous body as a beachhead for its colonization.
The resignation of hundreds of INE trainers and supervisorswho are in charge of guiding citizens what to do on election day, the latest episode of a failed leadership that will be resolved a week and a half before the election. choicereveals a lack of foresight and anticipation of Taddei. Although several councilors are minimizing the escape of this essential team on election day, mass resignation had never been seen Of this size.
The origin of this deficiency is in the austerity ordered by López Obrador and the instructions to carry out purges that would end everything that the past represented or meant. Horacio Duarte, Morena’s representative in the INE until November 2018, placed Jesús George Zamora in the organization as head of the Internal Control Body, from where he harassed officials – such as the Director of Administration, Ignacio Ruelas, forced to resign for refusing. to comply with their arrangements -, to electoral councilors who were not related to the government, and canceled contracts and supplies, among which was a fundamental one: the rental of computer equipment.
The argument for canceling the computer equipment rental service was because it was cheaper to buy it, which was true, although they forgot to acquire the program licenses and technical support for the computers, so they had to improvise and generate a information collection system that will be put into play on June 2, without knowing with certainty if the duck method implemented will be able to process the information on election day.
The austerity policies and repressive methods of George Zamora – who is currently the legal director in the government of the state of Mexico where Duarte is the de facto governor – also caused the resignation of the experienced INE IT team, which guarantees the operation of the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP), which was not replaced with personnel of similar quality, so the most important election in the history of this country is in the hands of a structure of slightly inferior and poor quality, as observed by experts in that field.
Inexperience has led to ridiculous situations. One of the most absurd was when the INE, which determines the transmission of spots by day and time, began to send requests and sanctioned radio and television companies for failing to comply with the exact schedule for their broadcast in Chihuahua, which forced them to document that the problem was not theirs but rather the institute’s ignorant censors, who did not record that that state, due to the intensity of its trade with Texas, had maintained the same time as in Texas.
Another of the delirious actions of the INE was when it accepted a complaint from the Citizen Movement because the public and private electronic media were not covering the campaign of their presidential candidate. Jorge Álvarez Máynez, and sanctioned the companies. The electoral law, however, is very precise in pointing out that coverage of candidates is not mandatory, and each media outlet and communicator decides its content.
Taddei, the president advisor of the INE, has been constant in her demonstration of incompetence or bias towards the López Obrador government. For nine months she left the Executive Secretariat – the operational arms of the INE – and nine executive directorates and technical units, which she managed through office managers, without a formal head. The paralyzing vacuum that Taddei had created could be resolved because six counselors, who make up an opposition bloc to the group of four that support the president of the INE, imposed their resolution to force the appointments. In justification of her inaction, Taddei used the lópezobradoristas formula and said that everything was due to the fact that they had left her a “looted” INE.
Consequently, he ordered audits against the team close to his predecessor, Lorenzo Córdova, equivalent to a witch hunt. Córdova is one of López Obrador’s public enemies, and from the beginning Taddei, who came to the INE promoted by the governor of Sonora Alfonso Durazo, president of the National Council of Morena, and one of those responsible for the official electoral machinery, has been diligent to fulfill the commitments with those who led her to lead the colonization of the institute.
Taddei responded to Durazo and the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto Hernández, until he resigned in June of last year to run for Morena’s presidential candidacy. Since then, López Obrador ordered that the person who would manage the relationship with Taddei would be his presidential spokesperson Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, head of the propaganda machinery, and one of his main political advisors in the National Palace, which has become the transmission belt of López Obrador’s orders to the counselor.
The incompetence, the diminished structure, replacements without the quality of those they replaced, weak computer systems, violation of electoral laws by the authority, and the subordination of Taddei to the Presidency of the Republic, are ominous signs for the epilogue of the dirtiest electoral process in memory, where López Obrador has altered the principle of equity and justice in the competition. And it can be worse.
What would prevent Taddei from declaring on the night of June 2 with very preliminary results and that the trend favors Claudia Sheinbaum? The copper that she has shown allows us to work on that scenario, a blow that would damage the process and leave it in the hands of the strongest. YSQ, remember?, is the strongest.
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