The Complaints and Complaints Commission of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE) has refused to prohibit the political campaign acts of the ‘corcholatas’, a nickname that the country’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has given to the candidates for the party’s nomination official Morena to succeed him.
The decision comes after the coordinator of the deputies of the Movimiento Ciudadano party, Jorge Alvarez Maynez, filed a complaint against Claudia Sheinbaum, Adan Augusto Lopez, Marcelo Ebrard, Ricardo Monreal, Manuel Velasco and Gerardo Fernandez Norona for an “alleged early campaign against the Presidency”, as reported by the newspaper ‘El Universal’.
The Technical Unit for Electoral Litigation (UTC) of the INE had suggested that the celebration in open spaces, the declarations about electoral promises and the requests to vote could break the rules of a fair campaign, thus failing to comply with electoral regulations.
The objective of this project was to suspend these “proselytizing acts”, but the committee has assured that the events have been “prejudged” and that, so far, the Morena candidates have complied with the regulations.