Rubén Moreira sees room to increase austerity without the need for electoral reform


“It is much more expensive if there is no democracy,” he replied Ruben Moreira Valdezquestioned about the high cost of the electoral system and democracy in Mexico, which the presidential initiative for constitutional reform in electoral matters proposes to reduce.

The president of the Political Coordination Board (JCP) of the Chamber of Deputies and coordinator of the PRI parliamentary group admitted, however, that “there is an opportunity to be austere on many issues”, but considered that “the concentration” that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal seeks ” weakens democracy.

For his part, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, president of the JCP of the Chamber of Senators and coordinator of the Morena caucus, said that he agreed with “the philosophy of the reform (initiative) of reducing costs and generating savings in elections which are the most expensive in the world…”.

In his opinion, it is an exaggeration for the opposition to say that what the government intends with its proposal is control of the electoral authority.

“There would be no way to control those who emerge from a process legitimized by society, by popular election. There would be no such thing”, he explained in reference to the presidential proposal that the electoral advisers and magistrates be directly elected by the citizens.

Moreira Valdez anticipated that The PRI is willing to dialogue with Morena and the federal government in the search for agreements that make it possible to carry out the pending electoral reform.

From his perspective, the presidential proposal violates three things:

“One, federalism. It seems that those who wrote this are pushing a centralist state. Two, it violates the electoral body. An arbitrator who has been questioned is true, but we are all satisfied with the results and that there is also an Electoral Court that settles the differences. And three, (it was made) without (considering) the opposition. So, I don’t see much of a future for that.”

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