The President of the Central Electoral Council (JCE), Román Jáquez Liranzo, reported that the electoral body will announce on Wednesday the criteria that will be used to determine the order of the electoral ballot and the distribution of the 1,260 million pesos it grants to the state. be distributed among the various political parties. This decision will allow us to know which will be the majority and minority parties.
“This is exactly what we will specify and validate the position of the various political parties, the plenary session and the laws, and the plenary session will finalize a decision in this regard. Today (Wednesday) the country will know the position,” said Jáquez Liranzo, who arrived at JCE headquarters in around 9:40 in the morning.
Regarding the fact that the main political parties do not agree on the use of a specific criterion, this would prevent the decision of the plenary session of the entity, the president only added that the decision taken will be based on “laws and the Constitution. ”
The plenary session of the JCE takes place from 10 am and the subject will be the only item on the agenda.
The last of the four resolutions issued by the last plenary session on the electoral order and the one used for the July 5 elections, states that the order of the elections should be by the sum of the percentages of all electoral levels (municipal, congressional and presidential).
The political parties had until yesterday afternoon to submit their answers and oppositions on the criteria that will be used.
Regarding the economic distribution of parties, Article 61 of Law 33-18 on parties, the groups stipulate that 80% of these resources will be distributed equally among the parties that received more than five percent of the valid votes cast. In the “last election”. These will be considered majority parties.
12%, distributed among all parties that reached more than one percent (1%) and less than five percent of the valid votes cast in the last election, while the remaining eight percent, among parties that obtained between 0.01 % and 1%.