2023-06-24 03:19:00
The residents who make up the committee promoting the revocation of Miguel Hidalgo’s mandate demanded that the Electoral Institute of Mexico City (IECM) review signature by signature publicly and before the media of the more than 51,000 that delivered in May, following endorsing that they will challenge before the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary the resolution by which the local councilors refused to carry out the exercise of direct democracy.
Of the total number of signatures supporting the consultation, the electoral authorities did not validate more than 19,000, with which the residents did not reach the 32,000 necessary signatures, corresponding to 10 percent of the electoral roll.
Gustavo García, legal representative of the promoter committee, said that “we did collect the required number of signatures”, but the councilors arranged “a chain of obstacles and designed everything so that the consultation was not carried out”, for which he accused that the IECM “He acted with premeditation and fraud in the process.”
García defined as serious that the consultation has not been carried out, which “is proof that the right and the conservative sectors in the city are afraid of the exercises of direct democracy.”
A few moments ago, the plenary session of the General Council of the IECM approved the agreements in which the inadmissibility of the requests for revocation of mandate is determined and when determining the existence of signatures that were presented of people discharged due to deaths, 262 in the case of Miguel Hidalgo and 102 in that of Xochimilco, the body ordered to see the Executive Directorate of the Federal Voter Registry and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Attention of Electoral Crimes of the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office, “so that, in their respective areas of competence carry out the actions that correspond to them”.
In the session, while the representative of the PAN, Andrés Sánchez, discredited the process in the case of Miguel Hidalgo by calling it a “simulation”, that of Morena, Eduardo Santillán, regretted that it was not feasible to carry out the process “due to an institutional design that more than promoting, complicates the participatory exercise” and ruled for revising the law to lower the threshold of 10 percent of signatures of people registered in the corresponding voter registry and increase the time to collect signatures, which was 38 days while at the federal level it is 90.
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