They propose to the INE a vaccine against a supermajority for 2027

The Democratic Alliance for Electoral Observation will propose to the National Electoral Institute (INE) the exploration of two solutions to the problem of overrepresentation of political forces in the Chamber of Deputies. One of them is that coalitions be treated, from their registration onward, as a party, or to apply Thesis XL/2015 to protect minorities. In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, electoral expert Ricardo Becerra, who collaborated on the preparation of the proposal, said that the INE is obligated to correct the ambiguity found in the legislation, since "it has been demonstrated that the interpretation made by the Electoral Tribunal does not serve the constitutional purpose," he said. He added that "proportional representation is designed, here and in Europe, to correct and temper overrepresentation, but with this interpretation it deepens it. That is why the INE is obligated to correct it." With the registration of district-level alliances and coalitions that the parties must register starting the first week of December in view, the INE must issue criteria to guarantee the genuine membership of the candidates who run under the principle of relative majority, that is, those seeking a seat through the plurinominal route. Infographic: Yafet LunaThe issuance of these guidelines, for the registration of district coalitions, will once again put the issue of overrepresentation back on the table of the INE councilors, which the Electoral Tribunal granted to Morena in 2024. Becerra explained that while Morena and its allies won 256 districts, campaigning as a coalition, they asked to be treated individually for the allocation of plurinominal seats. Despite winning just over 50% of the districts, it received 72% of the proportional representation seats, while the opposition, which won around 40% of the districts, received less than 30% of the plurinominal seats. Of the possible solutions proposed by the Democratic Alliance for Electoral Observation, the first —which Ricardo Becerra asserts is the clearest— is that coalitions must be treated under the criterion used in the years 2000 and 2003. The other is to apply Jurisdictional Thesis XL/2015, which proposes that the constitutional limits must be applied preferentially and mandatorily over any system for allocating seats provided in local legislation. "Proportional representation. The application of the limits of over- and underrepresentation in the composition of local legislatures is governed by the principles of the general constitution," the Thesis states, derived from the appeal SUP-REC-936/2014 and accumulated cases, related to the composition of the Congress of Coahuila. "The two we have presented are legal and constitutional. In fact, with small variations, they have been approved at other moments in the life of the INE or IFE since 1997, that is, since constitutional article 54 has been in force, exactly the same [except that a 2 was changed to a ]. Everything else is the same. "The first one we propose is the clearest, most direct, and easiest to apply: coalitions are treated as a party, period. They campaign together, repeat the same slogans together, present most of their candidates together. But when it comes to distributing PR deputies, they demand to be treated separately. It is illogical, it is unjust, it is a fraud," Becerra warned. Effective affiliation means that, at the time of allocating plurinominal seats, the INE reviews each party's list to allocate them, but in Mexico a subsequent phenomenon has occurred: the deputies allocated on the lists of the Green Party and the PT have jumped to Morena once in the Chamber of Deputies. "It is one of the serious problems. One of the frauds against the law is lending candidates to the allied party so that its vote share rises and it does not lose its registration, even though in any case it acts as a representative of Morena, for example. The deal is a bargain: I have fewer district victories, but that opens the way for me to access proportional representation," Becerra stated. Both alternatives proposed by the Democratic Alliance for Electoral Observation have already been delivered to magistrate Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón and to INE councilors Arturo Castillo and Martín Faz. In addition, they were delivered to the representations of Movimiento Ciudadano and PAZ at the INE; next week they will be delivered to the party Somos. You may be interested in: Man who walked a lioness in his truck in Aguascalientes is linked to trial; accused of illegal possession of fauna "Anti-Meme Law" comes into force; establishes jail and fines for anyone who uses official logos to deceive "Gabito Ballesteros is detained for singing, while Taddei and Rocha are protected so they don't sing"; Máynez lashes out at the 4T