Overview
- Parties across Mexico have opened formal and informal 'pre‑pre‑precampaign' activity to position aspirants months before legal precampaign windows, with Morena alone listing more than 300 promoted figures through local tours, assemblies and branded materials.
- The INE Council has not approved the TEPJF-mandated lineamientos to fiscalize these acts after a May proposal was rejected and later postponed, leaving a regulatory gap that councilors and experts say requires prompt rules.
- INE operational reports show widespread early promotion, hundreds of complaints and dozens of precautionary measures reported by vocalías, indicating the activity is nationwide and generating contested cases for authorities to resolve.
- INE counselor Carla Humphrey and court rulings point to state electoral institutes (OPLES) as the first auditors for local pre‑campaign acts, a jurisdictional split that many say creates uneven enforcement across states.
- Newly registered parties Somos México and PAZ formally entered the INE this week and used their protests to demand action, while advisers and former INE officials warn that unregulated early spending risks skewing campaign spending limits and eroding public trust.