2024-07-19 13:22:45
Under pressure from the federal governmentthrough the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), to induce the establishment of a legislative overrepresentation, the president of the National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, recalled that the National Electoral Institute (INE) is the only authority empowered to determine the allocation.
“This claim violates democratic principles and equity in political representation. We consider that legislative overrepresentation violates the fundamental principle of proportionality in the allocation of spaces, by granting a excessive number of representatives to certain political parties to the detriment of others,” he said in a statement.
He explained that the coalition of Morena won 54% of the votes in the last election, but it is “absolutely unconstitutional and a mockery of the popular vote that they want to be assigned 75% of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies.”
Cortes accused Morena of cheating by sending candidates from other political parties and stated that there is an effective affiliation agreement in which the INE must accommodate the deputies in the parties that correspond to them.
“The government’s interpretation goes against the principles of equality and electoral justice, by favoring certain political parties to the detriment of others, without respecting the popular vote,” he said.
The Constitution, The PAN leader considered that it should be interpreted as a whole and in accordance with the historical moment that the country is experiencing, since the spirit of the integration of proportional representation was to grant minorities representation in the Congress has never been about granting greater artificial representation to the ruling party.o.
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2024-07-19 13:22:45