The president counselor of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, and the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Enrique Graue Wiechers, asked to take care of the initiatives and eventual reforms to the electoral law, since they considered that the model current guarantees reliability and does not generate conflicts.
After reviewing the electoral reform of 1977, Councilor Córdova said that today “there is certainty and political consensus in the rules and the electoral authority enjoys full autonomy and citizen trust and the only uncertainty is that which must prevail in any democracy, of who will win the next elections”.
During the Seminar The challenges of democracy, 45 years after the Political Reform of 1977, the president of the INE said that the electoral system is functional and that he does not consider “an electoral reform essential.
“But if there is a reform that helps us to improve our system, to continue this process of laying the foundations and strengthening the democratic achievements that we have achieved, then it is welcome, as long as it is to solve problems and not to create them where today they are not. there is”.
The rector Enrique Graue Wiechers affirmed that in Mexico “over the years we have built an electoral scaffolding that supports the active participation of a society that is increasingly informed and responsible for its citizen assets.”
He argued that “democracy in any political system must guarantee the free expression of ideological conditions and electoral preferences of each and every citizen of the nation. That is and should be the essence of democracy.
For his part, the electoral advisor Ciro Murayama warned that the expression of minorities and political pluralism are at risk of regression given the times.
unnecessary reform
Former presidential candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas said that an electoral reform is not necessary at this time.
“I don’t see what would be the reasons for a new electoral reform, first I would have to know what the reform proposal is to know if I agree,” said Cárdenas during his participation in the seminar organized by UNAM.
He proposed that in case a reform is necessary, it is pertinent to eliminate the 28 seats in the Senate of proportional representation, which he said have not responded to popular demands, as well as relax the requirements to create new political parties which would not receive resources. until they reach “a minimum of approval”.