The glass’ box

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The IFE has in course 17 complaints for irregular operations
The glass’ box
By: Carlos Damián June 28, 2012
They don't discard to investigate the financial movements of EPN from 2005
México. - The electoral authorities will be able to decree and to promise the sky and the stars, but the important thing is the citizen's trial on the respect to the popular will, and these elections won't be democratic and free thanks to the General Council of the IFE, but to the electoral observers, to the movement #132, and the thousands of invisible stall officials, local consultants that work freely and without coercion inside the IFE. The IFE and the TRIFE affirm that “there is not space” for the electoral fraud. But the fraud was already made. We are certain it to all. They go a long way the purchase of votes and all the coercion forms punished by the law everywhere. Citizens' group demands to the IFE that cancels registration Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN), for its countless electoral crimes. But the IFE will follow it protecting until the day of the election and he will be devoted later on to hide the new ones you cheat that they will be made to impose it.

However the movement of the university boys is a much more effective innovative and fresh factor that the bureaucratically and the eternal smile of the electoral consultants. With the tests in the hand and let us remember the first debate in which the IFE was amazed in the face of the decision of the the television chains to sabotage this first encounter. In the face of this unilateral decision the university boys created a social movement that impelled them to summon to the mediatic owners of the most important media in the country to transmit the second debate in national chain, to achieve the biggest possible audience and that the people of Mexico reached conclusions of this second debate knowing the presidential candidates.

The electoral authority violated the law flagrantly by means of the electoral consultants that having among its attributions to threaten to the Department of the Interior to that it applied the article 62 of the law of Radio and Television that it authorizes her to order the national chain of radio and television to transmit information of transcendence for the nation". However the execution of this norm would have contributed to the emission of an informed vote and aware of July 1. They only organized two debates and the third for shame of the IFE the teenagers of the 132 they got it by means of the Internet they published it. And this last debate was much more dynamic and professional that those summoned by the IFE, in spite of the limited and homemade capacity of the teams used in such an event.

Although it is worth to remember that by means of the social nets it boiled in interest on the political situation from Mexico when denouncing the candidate's presidential waste “commitment for Mexico” of the PRI-PVM, and from the past 11 of May in the Iberoamericana University, it exploited the firecracker in the candidate's hands EPN that with surprise the team in the first minutes didn't know to solve the situation in an university private in the one that supposedly the youths don't have a situation it criticizes and reflexive before the society. The IFE before the evidence of the great quantity of money to impel the candidate of the elites, it was crossed of arms. But the citizens when denouncing openly have achieved what is obligation of the IFE, they got that it retired the exhibition of their expenses in Internet, and now outside more buried this waste that is offensive to the town of Mexico.

Before the evidence the IFE was made of turn a blind eye and the consultants responded that these irregularities were competition of the Fepade, however this situation doesn't exempt it of their responsibilities, so much to prevent its propagation like to count the corresponding expenses as part of the campaigns of the candidates. But if they don't guarantee the legality and the justness of the electoral process, the Fepade will make it. It is question. When responding the IFE for the pressure of the citizens and the youths they gave us soup with the finger when discovering the lukewarm water, “it is prohibited in all moment the purchase and coercion of the vote", and “to reinforce the diffusion that has been come giving” to a listing of having enunciated that explicitly they dilute and they soften the graveness of the problem.

The Federal Penal Code (article 403) it points out that the political operators can go to the jail “to pick up credentials to vote without cause foreseen by the law", “to request votes for pay, gift, promise of money or another recompense", or “to violate, in any way, the citizen's right to emit their vote secretly", perhaps demanding a picture of the crossed out ticket or demanding that the citizen deposits a previously crossed ticket in the polling-both. However the IFE is worried by the electoral criminals when advising with soft messages that minimize the situation. It doesn't alarm to the citizenship it about the commission of these crimes, and it prefers to tranquilize them when suggesting that it doesn't pass anything serious.

The worry situation of all this is that they don't make anything to assure the execution of the law, when refusing that the cellular ones are used when voting or at least to invite the citizens to leave its Smartphone in the reception tables to vote, and to place warnings in the polling-boots about the use of these mobile telephones. Neither they took measures some to prevent or to facilitate the accusation of the “roulette " or " carrousel " where the voter is forced to deposit in the polling-booth a previously crossed out ticket. In view of the omissions of the IFE it is necessary that the organized society carries out an enormous operative citizen to guarantee the legality of the electoral process of July 1, 2012. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 11 - 24, June 25, 2012).