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Two days before the election day to be held nationwide, the purchase of voting intention has soared, since 500 pesos declared in May, the last days have been offered until 10 thousand pesos in cash in certain entities, such as Mexico City and Jalisco denounced Citizen Action Against Poverty ( CVA).
In a report published yesterday, ACFP – which gathers 60 social organizations, including the Center for Studies Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY), Mexican Institute of Christian Social Doctrine ( Imdosoc), Network for the Rights of the Child in Mexico (Redim) and Save the Children Mexico among others, detailed that according to the complaints of the people on the flat Democraciasinpobreza.mx in Mexico City, the vote is bought between 200 and 10 thousand pesos, while in Jalisco this illegal act offers 500 and 10 thousand pesos.
These two entities are followed by the State of Mexico, where 5,000 pesos would have been granted for one vote, followed by Tabasco, with 4 thousand pesos, while in Oaxaca and Sonora were delivered until 5,000. to 3 thousand, ACFP requires, also integrated by Civic Alliance, Mexico Evaluates, Social Cohesion, Center for Ecumenical Studies, Social Management and Cooperation, Mexican Center for Philanthropy, Lindavista Center and Merced Foundation. 19659002] In the report of May 23, it was recorded that the highest amount for the purchase of the vote was 5 thousand pesos in the State of Mexico, while in the capital of the country, the vote was bought in 2,500 pesos and in Jalisco was thousand pesos
The organization reported that until yesterday it had received 244 reports of vote purchase alleged 36% of which describe the distribution of things from pantries to neighborhood alarms. s and cisterns; 33% are reports of promises or threats to deliver or withdraw the benefits of a social program in exchange for a vote; 26% for the delivery of money, while 5% are for the distribution of electronic cards or handbags with the promise of cash deposits after the election.
In the virtual platform, it is reported that a person denounced April, in the colony Santísima Trinidad, of Zapotlanejo Jalisco, a person distributed 10 thousand pesos in cash in exchange for issuing the title of the elector of National Electoral Institute
The states where the lowest amount is received with the promise to vote for a candidate or party policy is in Baja California, where 100 pesos are paid, followed by Tamaulipas, Colima, Quintana Roo, Hidalgo and Nuevo León, entities where 500 pesos are paid
Numbers from the digital platform indicate that in 30 states of the Republic there are reports of the purchase of the voting intention for this Sunday, while only in Baja California Sur and Durango there are no complaints about it.
ACFP considers that the reports on the purchase of votes do not help to overcome the poverty of the people and have described these actions as immoral and illegal, so it asks to stop immediately. this practice. He urged the authorities of INE, the Office of the Prosecutor Specializing in the Response to Electoral Crimes (FEPADE) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation (TEPJF) to increase their tasks of inspection, to Investigation and punishment
monitor, monitor, visualize and prevent the electoral use of social programs to prevent poverty and inequality being used as tools of control and political manipulation and to divert money from programs aimed at overcoming poverty towards political-electoral operations ", insists the organization
The date approaches and the payment increases
In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, Héctor Rubio, Responsible for the incidents of Citizen Action Against Poverty, felt that this increase in vote buying responds to the pressure of political actors with the proximity that it has. 9 is the electoral process.
"The purchase you have up to 10 thousand thousand pesos per vote is explained by the proximity of election day, because it's a pressure for all actors, so there is greater supply and demand for this type of action. "
He said that based on the denunciations that society has done it has been detected that virtually all political parties have incurred in the past. 39; purchase of voting intention for this Sunday "and perhaps the factor with more explanation power than we have is where a particular party fits in its entirety in that this party incurs in this practice, that is to say, there is a correlation between the color of the governing party and the one who incurs in these practices. "
Inform that the virtual platform will be in effect during the election day of this Sunday and that it will be updated in real time so that the public denounces these acts and that she can serve as a reference for the responsible authorities to respond to these denunciations.
Héctor Rubio confides in which this electoral process is the last where these illegal actions are made, because it is already time that the public money is stopped for these purposes.
Article 7 of the General Electoral Crimes Act specifies that a fine of 100 to 100 days and imprisonment of six months to three years will be imposed on anyone who requests a vote for payment, pledge of payment. money or by violence or threat ", or to vote or refrain from paying a candidate, a political party or a coalition during the election campaign, on polling day or in the three days before polling day. "
In Article 9 of the same law, it is stipulated that they will be taxed from 1 to 200 days of fine and imprisonment from two to six years to the Party agent or candidate who is lobbying voters to vote or refrain from voting for a candidate, political party or coalition on election day or in one of the three days before the same day, and that during the preparation phase of the election or polling day, ask for votes for payment, the promise of money or the reward
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