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00:04:40Center. This Sunday, October 4,
00:04:47A supernatural experience is what
00:16:20Word of the day, Friday, September 101.
00:18:55The largest election in its history, more than 2,000 positions
00:18:59at stake, more than 100 million voters called to the polls
00:19:02next June 6,
00:19:042027.
00:19:07and preparations formally began this Thursday with the
00:19:11ceremony that marks the beginning of this process at the
00:19:14National Electoral Institute, the INE.
00:19:18Citizens called to the polls with whom we can talk, have
00:19:22said that for them it is important to
00:19:25vote in these midterm elections in Mexico, people
00:19:29have to vote, the more votes there are, the more
00:19:32credible it is. It is our right and our duty as
00:19:35Mexicans.
00:19:37is to exercise our right to vote, although the majority admitted not
00:19:41knowing what is at stake or what positions are being elected,
00:19:45I wasn't aware of what is being elected, but I do know that there are elections, to be honest,
00:19:49no, I'm not very aware of
00:19:51that, what's it called, for change
00:19:55in deputies and senators and a few governors,
00:19:59next year 500 federal deputies,
00:20:0217 governorships, 1098 deputies
00:20:06will be renewed.
00:20:1116 mayoralties, among other positions, according to the
00:20:14INE. As of today, the INE, Guadalupe
00:20:17Tady, president counselor of the INE, declared this process inaugurated,
00:20:21at a sensitive moment for the country's highest electoral body,
00:20:25after the resignation of the executive secretary Claudia
00:20:28Espino, citing health reasons.
00:20:32There are moments in the public life of a country
00:20:35that allow to mention with special
00:20:40institutions, this is one of those
00:20:44days, the results of this process
00:20:47will define a large part of the political map of... Mexico and the
00:20:51INE will play a paramount role as organizer
00:20:54of this electoral process. Today they look so fragmented. For Professor
00:20:57of Political Studies at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching,
00:21:01CIDE, Javier Aparicio, the challenge for President
00:21:04Claudia Sheinbaum's party, the National Regeneration Movement
00:21:07or Morena, will be to maintain its qualified majority in the
00:21:11Chamber of Deputies. This has allowed it to approve reforms
00:21:14without having to ally with the opposition. I believe that the
00:21:18most important result for Morena is
00:21:21to maintain the majorities in the Chamber of
00:21:23Deputies, in second place, in second
00:21:27place it would have the local and state governments, right? But I believe
00:21:31that the result that most interests it or that should worry Morena
00:21:34is whether it manages to maintain its qualified
00:21:37majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Representative of the
00:21:40political party "Somos", on the ballot two new parties will also
00:21:43appear, "Somos México" and "Paz" which must compete and
00:21:47reach a minimum of 3% of the votes to keep their
00:21:51registration.
00:21:53This election will also be an important test leading up to the 2030
00:21:56presidential elections, it will show how much ground Morena retains
00:22:00as the ruling party and how much the opposition
00:22:05is at stake, its planning began this
00:22:08week, nine months before voters go to the
00:22:12polls. Valeria León, CNN, Mexico
00:22:15City.
00:22:20Let's get down to business, Luis Carlos Hugalde, director of Integral a Consultores,
00:22:24former president of the Federal Electoral Institute of Mexico, Luis Carlos, thank you for
00:22:27being with us, if you had the opportunity to listen to Valeria's report,
00:22:31there are some citizens who are not very clear about what they are going to
00:22:35vote for, is that normal at this point in the election, right? Yes,
00:22:39it's perfectly normal, Gabi, because there are 9 months left,
00:22:42because it's a midterm election and because most people only start to
00:22:46find out two or three months before the election, I don't see that
00:22:50as a problem
00:22:50and
00:22:56its institutions to this new process,
00:23:00yes, there is an institutional problem, Gabi,
00:23:03clearly one of the biggest problems at the moment is that the INE
00:23:06and the Electoral Tribunal appear politically
00:23:10captured, appear to be less impartial, appear
00:23:13to be remiss, a central issue in Mexico in recent
00:23:16months has been the fact that the parties,
00:23:20especially the official party Morena, started 6
00:23:23months earlier than the beginning of the so-called pre-campaigns, and that
00:23:26issue, the fact that they can start playing soccer earlier,
00:23:30when neither the referee nor the fans have arrived, is
00:23:34an issue that is violating electoral legislation in
00:23:37Mexico, and in this issue there is a great omission by the
00:23:41authorities
00:23:41and
00:23:45you say the institutions are taken, what can be expected in the coming
00:23:49months then? In that sense, a
00:23:51risk, Gabriela, is the uneven playing field, that
00:23:55the referee doesn't blow the whistle, that he doesn't pull out the yellow
00:23:59and red cards, and that
00:24:01clearly invites more violation of the
00:24:05rules, I see a risk that in the coming
00:24:09months it could happen that, given the
00:24:11lack of firmness from the referee, the parties
00:24:15start doing whatever they want, they already started their pre-campaigns six
00:24:19months ago. What's coming could be that governments get involved in the
00:24:23elections, that there's clientelistic use of social programs
00:24:26and that everyone ends up doing what they want, that's the
00:24:30risk and I think that's an issue that needs to be given
00:24:34a lot of attention in the coming weeks and
00:24:37months.
00:24:40And I also want to ask you, since you are talking about this environment in which these elections
00:24:44will be generated, the issue of security, the issue of
00:24:48possible pressures from
00:24:50organized crime in this process in the coming months, what
00:24:54are you anticipating and how protected is the process from this
00:24:57type of pressure, and especially the candidates, Luis Carlos, I believe this is the greatest
00:25:00risk of next year's election,
00:25:04Gabriela, because organized crime for about
00:25:0710 or 15 years has been gradually penetrating elections,
00:25:10why? To induce that the candidates preferred by
00:25:14crime win the elections or to eliminate those who represent a
00:25:18risk to the territorial control of criminal groups,
00:25:22clearly more and more this starts to have an inhibitory
00:25:25effect, so the candidates already peacefully
00:25:28submit to the interests
00:25:32of organized crime, this capture eventually the
00:25:36violence they exert when someone does not submit, I think that is the greatest
00:25:39risk. This partly results from the fact that the Mexican
00:25:43state has not done anything profound, nothing
00:25:47serious to contain this penetration.
00:25:50and that, of course, what it portends is that this
00:25:54penetration will happen
00:25:55again.
00:25:58Not even based on past lessons, also on this same topic.
00:26:02And and and the incidents we've had, Luis Carlos, look Gabriela,
00:26:06something so superficial and so trivial was done, which was that
00:26:10the president proposed that a committee of
00:26:13counselors from the Electoral Institute be formed to review
00:26:17the criminal records of the candidates,
00:26:21clearly this is also optional, do you think
00:26:24that there are databases to
00:26:28know who has dealt with organized
00:26:31crime? The database that the government has is
00:26:34very limited and two, many times what happens is that even if you
00:26:38or I want to be candidates, we have no
00:26:41record, we are decent and honest
00:26:45people, once you are on the playing field is when
00:26:49they capture you, bribe you, threaten you and there often
00:26:53the link occurs, so apart from
00:26:56this investigative committee of your past, nothing else has been
00:27:00done, this is the great problem that makes it seem
00:27:03that again surely organized crime
00:27:07will penetrate, will be there and from time to time there will be a little
00:27:10violence, that's what will
00:27:13pasar,
00:27:16Finally, electoral observation, Luis Carlos, international
00:27:19observation in this case for this type of elections, do you expect it and
00:27:23where is it most important to put the magnifying glass? It is very important that
00:27:27there is robust electoral observation, Mexico always welcomes
00:27:30international and national observers, for a long time observation
00:27:34lost interest because the INE
00:27:38was the guarantee of this, now that there are doubts I think it should be promoted,
00:27:42now I must say something, despite all these problems that I just
00:27:45mentioned, the INE, despite its political capture in its
00:27:49governing body, still has a professional
00:27:51structure that guarantees that elections
00:27:55in Mexico continue to be organized with great professionalism, so
00:27:59that if people go out to vote and there is electoral observation,
00:28:02I believe that the will of Mexicans will be transferred into
00:28:06votes and into the person, the people who are elected in next
00:28:10year's election.
00:28:14Well, we are attentive and we will be calling in the coming months, as always
00:28:18Luis Carlos, as always I also thank you, good night, until another time,
00:28:22good
00:28:23night.
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00:29:26viewpoint, Saturdays and Sundays on
00:29:29CNN, live from Mexico
00:29:32City. A story can
00:29:36change everything, a look at the reconstruction efforts of a
00:29:40city and the hope of a people determined to rise up, it evolved
00:29:44very quickly, and we never thought it would become a Category
00:29:475, and to understand what is happening, let's go
00:29:51with my colleague Ione Molinare to Washington,
00:29:55the explosion, we can see the dimension it had to take down the entire
00:29:59facade, we listen to the protagonists. They
00:30:03mocked us as mothers and fathers of the 43,
00:30:07where she lived a bomb fell, we are about to board this
00:30:10Mexican Air Force plane heading to Romania,
00:30:13to have a complete vision, we are
00:30:16here as migrants to progress and help this country grow, there are
00:30:20great stories to learn and many perspectives to
00:30:23analyze. Perspectives with Mario
00:30:25González, Monday to Friday on
00:30:28CNN. Every night, there is the possibility
00:30:33of an unfiltered bombardment, they should not
00:30:37treat our young people like this anywhere,
00:30:40here it is asked, is there freedom of belief in the country, in
00:30:43Spain, it is heard, this type of phenomenon is not
00:30:47that they are the generators of change, they are the expression of a change, and it is
00:30:50debated, their foreign policy will be like this, timid without
00:30:54taking a stance, conclusions with Fernando del Rincón, Monday
00:30:58to Friday on CNN.