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INE Debates Preventive Rules to Regulate Parties’ Internal Processes

Martín Faz urged the council to adopt guidelines that let the INE monitor financing, polls and propaganda before the electoral cycle opens.

Overview

  • The INE Consejo General is reviewing a new draft of binding lineamientos that would expand federal oversight of party internal processes but has not yet approved them.
  • A prior proposal presented by counselor Arturo Castillo failed to secure the necessary votes, and counselor Martín Faz has publicly urged adoption to avoid ceding the INE’s preventive role.
  • Under the draft the Unidad Técnica de Fiscalización would receive mandatory reports on spending, contracts and polls and parties would treat such costs as ordinary financing.
  • The rules set monetary caps for contributions to internal-process participants (3,304,893 pesos) and to militants (826,223 pesos), require bank accounts for in-cash management, and restrict types of propaganda and third-party diffusion.
  • The draft preserves non-retroactivity for past acts except for continuous infractions with guaranteed hearings and leaves Organismos Públicos Locales responsible for local procedures with an exception for radio and television time.