Let the games begin!
During the declaration that marked the beginning of the Yucatan electoral process for the 2023-2024 period, Moisés Bates Aguilar, the president of the Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute (Iepac), assured that fair competition will be guaranteed and called on the authorities, parties politicians and citizens to exercise their vote freely to elect 835 new local authorities in the elections on June 2, 2024.
In the kick-off event, which included the Honors to the Flag, the General Council of Iepac held an extraordinary session and signed a collaboration agreement with the local electoral institutes and courts of Campeche and Quintana Roo. In addition, the electoral advisor of the INE, Jorge Montaño Ventura, was present; the president of the Association of Presidents of the Institutes and Councils of the Federal Entities (AIEEF), Yanko Durán Prieto, who is also the president advisor of the Electoral Institute of Chihuahua, as well as representatives of the Executive, Legislative and electoral justice powers .
Moisés Bates explained that in the next elections, which include the election of governor, 106 mayors and 35 local deputies, 18 thousand citizens will be needed to operate nearly 3 thousand polling stations, as well as 893 citizens who will act as electoral advisors in the 106 municipal councils and the 21 majority local district councils in Yucatán.
It was estimated that the number of citizens with the right to vote in Yucatán will reach a historical record of 1.7 million people. Bates called on federal, state and municipal authorities to carry out their legal duties impartially and avoid any attempt to use public resources to influence electoral preferences.
The representatives of the eight political parties present in Yucatán (PAN, PVEM, Morena, PRD, Nueva Alianza, PT, PRI and Movimiento Ciudadano) presented their statements without confrontation and agreed on the importance of respecting electoral legislation and urging the three levels of government to avoid the use of public resources for electoral purposes.
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