Despite the deadline having arrived for the withdrawal of electoral propaganda, Both the winning and losing political parties show discouragement regarding the cleaning of public spaces.
The law marks the June 9 as the limit for the removal of billboards, banners, tarps and even painted walls; However, various places in Culiacán, Mazatlán, Los Mochis, Guasave and Guamúchil continue to be occupied by the names and faces of those who obtained public positions, as well as by candidates who aspired to other political positions.
Environmental claim
In an interview for EL DEBATE, the international organization Greenpeace He criticized the use, disuse and handling of plastics during the electoral process.
Ornela Garelli, Plastic-Free Oceans campaigner at Greenpeacepointed out that the fact that the elections and the deadline to remove advertisementsit does not mean that the electoral garbage has already disappeared and that the responsibility of parties and candidates no longer exists.
The activist added that winning or losing the elections, political actors must respond and make sure to collect all the garbage and even take it to be recycled.
The member of Greenpeace He acknowledged that perhaps it was not exactly the candidate who placed that tarp in the public space, but it was his campaign team, his supporters, and they did so with the intention of benefiting him.
They cannot excuse themselves to evade their responsibility, he said.
For the organization, political parties and electoral institutions must innovate in alternative ways of campaigning that do not generate environmental impacts, they must commit to not generating electoral garbage in the next campaign periods, and evaluate the possibility of a ban on printed electoral propaganda.
Guidelines
But what does the law say? Jorge Luis Ruelas Miranda, president of the Local Council of the INE in Sinaloaexplained that article 210 of the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures establishes in its second paragraph, that the propaganda placed on public roads must be removed during the seven days following the conclusion of election day. This process occurred on June 9.
It must be clarified that it refers only to propaganda on public roads. If there are people who at their home, on their property, have a pint, have a sign, have a flag and want to keep it because they identify with some political force, then this article does not apply to them, he explained.
In the case of billboards, he added that it must be seen if the burden is on the party or on the contracting candidate, because when a billboard is hired, the placement date and the withdrawal date are established.
If there were any complaints about a billboard that remains, we would have to notify the owner of the billboard to inform us about the contract, if it was established that it should be removed, and it has not been removed there, without a doubt the party or candidate would not be the responsible, but the person who should have removed it, he clarified.
He Local Council of the INE in Sinaloa, which specifically takes into account the federal elections, reported that it does not have a report on the billboards or advertisements on public roads that are being removed.
Jorge Luis Ruelas Miranda added that if he were to see any existing propaganda complaint, the corresponding party would be notified asking it to withdraw it.
If they do not do so, then it would no longer be a matter of withdrawal of propaganda, but of non-compliance with an electoral matter request. That perhaps that could constitute a fault, he explained.
Sinaloa
In the case of the local process in Sinaloa, the general secretary of the IEES, José Guadalupe Güicho Rojas, shared that the district councils installed in the 24 electoral districts of Sinaloa, began with tours to locate if there is still electoral propaganda in places susceptible to removal, What are public spaces? However, he shared that the incidence report has not yet been completed.
He added that the Regulations of the Electoral Institute of the State of Sinaloa for the dissemination, posting and removal of political and electoral propaganda establishes that if propaganda is found in these routes, then the city council of that municipality would be requested to remove it, charged to the budget of the political parties themselves.
“To do this, the corresponding City Council will send us a report or a budget project, you could say, how much it costs to remove that propaganda. Based on that, an ordinary sanctioning procedure would be opened for the parties, and they would be sanctioned according to what the city council tells us what it cost to remove that propaganda,” he clarified.
José Guadalupe Güicho Rojas highlighted that some parties have already been attentive to the timing of the withdrawal of propaganda and some of them could even donate tarps or plastic material to whoever requests it.
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