In little over four months after becoming incomplete once again, the General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), still hasn\u2019t filled in the vacancy left by former \u201ccivic\u201d advisor Sergio Garc\u00eda Ram\u00edrez after his resignation on February 1st. Does this delay matter? Ultimately, between 2010 and 2011, the Institute worked for 14 months without three of its advisors. Back then, time didn\u2019t seem important neither for IFE nor the Chamber of Deputies \u2013 an institution that, by the way, is responsible for appointing the \u201ccivic\u201d advisors \u2013 until the 2012 election process was imminent. The reason was the same one which is now claimed: lack of agreements \u2013 and negligence \u2013 among the majority parties at the Senate. Nowadays, however, circumstances are different. There are no federal elections in the immediate future but there is something whose implications are more concerning for some politicians: the audit reports on campaigns for Deputies and Senators of the previous year.
\nThe controversy for the Monex case in which, allegedly, money of dubious origin was used in delivering monetary benefits to potential voters and limits to Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s campaign expenses were exceeded, is not over yet. In fact, the most important part of this argument will be determined when the campaign accounts of Deputies and Senators of PRI and Partido Verde (Green Party) are revealed. Those who point out the Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s alliance argue that a tricky apportionment was made between resources used in the Presidential campaign and those who were destined to Deputies and Senators seeking to maximize the number of seats at Congress. This so-called accountability redistribution would have falsified Pe\u00f1a\u2019s expenses report, decreasing his own expenditures amount and passing it towards the legislative candidates\u2019 financial column, where it would end up adjusted with the allowed expenditure limits. In this context, regardless of the fact that the accountability of Presidential campaigns ended on January \u2013 along with the controversial voting of Garc\u00eda Ram\u00edrez, exonerating PRI from the Monexgate accusations \u2013 the audit reviews of candidates for Congress will occur between June 28th and July 3rd. These procedures will be held with the absence of one of IFE\u2019s advisors, just like several procedures have been made during the past months. However, just like the vote of former General Attorney and former PRI leader was essential in the beginning of 2013, its absence may affect PRI in the coming events.
\nMeanwhile, PRI is not sitting idly by. On May 29th, the Federal Electoral Court (TEPJF) decided to exhort the Congress\u2019s Permanent Commission in order to call an extraordinary session in the Chamber of Deputies in order to elect the missing IFE advisor. This was due to a complaint issued to the Court by PRI at the beginning of that month. Even though the matter has already reached the Permanent Commission, it was only featured in this week\u2019s current session. It\u2019s worth remembering that, if an extraordinary period were to be summoned, it would still be required to have two thirds of Deputies in order to choose the advisor. That way, we are witnessing a new challenge not for the negotiation abilities of President Pe\u00f1a, but for the skills of the one individual who has been \u2013 up till now \u2013 quite an expert on the matter: Deputy Manlio Fabio Beltrones. The clock is ticking\u2026<\/p>\n
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In little over four months after becoming incomplete once again, the
\nGeneral Council of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), still hasn\u2019t
\nfilled in the vacancy left by former \u201ccivic\u201d advisor Sergio Garc\u00eda
\nRam\u00edrez after his resignation on February 1st. Does this delay matter?
\nUltimately, between 2010 and 2011, the Institute worked for 14 months
\nwithout three of its advisors. Back then, time didn\u2019t seem important
\nneither for IFE nor the Chamber of Deputies \u2013 an institution that, by
\nthe way, is responsible for appointing the \u201ccivic\u201d advisors \u2013 until the
\n2012 election process was imminent. The reason was the same one which is
\n now claimed: lack of agreements \u2013 and negligence \u2013 among the majority
\nparties at the Senate. Nowadays, however, circumstances are different.
\nThere are no federal elections in the immediate future but there is
\nsomething whose implications are more concerning for some politicians:
\nthe audit reports on campaigns for Deputies and Senators of the previous
\n year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-political-analysis","tag-political-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}