Overview
- Members of the presidential commission met at National Palace to present initial pillars of the reform to President Claudia Sheinbaum, outlining the roadmap for next steps.
- According to commission sources, the draft would keep state OPLEs under an austerity program, cut party financing and proportional-representation seats nearly in half, and drop the popular election of INE councilors.
- Attendees included commission chair Pablo Gómez, Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez, retired minister Arturo Zaldívar, and legislative figures Ricardo Monreal, Adán Augusto López, and Ignacio Mier.
- Kenia López Rabadán said she will meet INE president Guadalupe Taddei at the institute on Thursday morning to review overlaps between INE proposals and her reform principles.
- López Rabadán reported agreement on eight of ten points, emphasizing equitable competitions, bans on using public resources for campaigns, impartial electoral authorities, and measures to block criminal financing in elections, while stressing that Congress will decide any legal changes.