Overview

• Representatives of 58 local parties met at the INE to open technical tables on changes for the pending electoral overhaul.
• They formally delivered petitions seeking increased and restructured public financing and the elimination of what they describe as double funding for national parties.
• Proposals include a constitutional change to count municipal election votes toward the 3% threshold to keep party registration and to allow citizens to affiliate with both a national and a local party.
• The parties also ask to condition state subsidies on winning local deputies or mayoralties, to raise the vote bar to access public funds, and to overhaul auditing with fines scaled to payment capacity.
• INE leaders welcomed the input but stressed the institute is not on the Presidential Commission, committing to document and forward the requests as local parties note they govern about two million people in 258 municipalities and hold 57 local deputy seats.