Overview
- State officials confirmed Oaxaca’s binding revocation vote for Governor Salomón Jara on January 25, with a 40% turnout required for validity after 518,979 signatures triggered the process.
- The presidential commission’s draft reform proposes eliminating 100 plurinominal deputies and 32 list senators, halving party public financing, trimming INE resources, tightening fiscal oversight, and adding a 2027 revocation mechanism.
- PAN leaders and conservative groups denounced the plan as a threat to democracy and to INE’s autonomy, while Morena’s Luisa María Alcalde countered that no formal initiative has been filed and defended austerity and participatory tools.
- Senate President Laura Itzel Castillo said a reform cannot advance without broad agreement and opposed scrapping plurinominal seats entirely; PT leader Reginaldo Sandoval kept talks open while questioning the need for reform; PVEM said it will state its position after reviewing the draft; Morena’s Ricardo Monreal reported ongoing negotiations and rejected claims of political quid pro quo.
- Civic group SomosMX, joined by ex-INE officials, presented an alternative focused on shielding elections from illicit money, preserving representation and equity, protecting electoral budgets, and shifting party funding distribution to a 50% equal and 50% vote-based formula, with warnings that deep INE cuts could hinder its constitutional duties.