How much does an INE director earn compared to a senior civil servant in the fourth quarter?

I agree with you legislators of the so-called “Fourth Transformation” (4T), one of the main reasons for the approval of the “Plan B” electoral reform, promoted by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorare end the an “expensive and unjustified” bureaucracy of the National Electoral Institute (INE).

Even during the time extraordinary session of this Friday, in which the appointment of Roberto Cardiel Soto as director of the Executive Secretariat of the Institute, the deputy of Morena, would be voted Euripides Flores Pachecointerviewed the outgoing directors, Lorenzo Cordova and Cyrus Murayamaabout them high salaries and the amount they will receive as regulation at the end of his nine-year term.

In this regard, the President of INE replied that he leads one of the most transparent bodies in the country, so when they leave office, the next April 3said amount will be made public and available on the institute’s website.

However, Córdova Vianello also pointed out that the salary of an electoral adviser “It’s less” than that of a Morena legislator.

According to the National Platform for Transparency, the net monthly salary of Córdova and Murayama in 2022 was 177 thousand 858 pesos –the same as the other nine directors earn–, plus additional income such as “Individualized Separation Insurance”, which is 27,000,391 pesos.

Meanwhile, the net salary of the deputy Morenista Eurípides Flores it is not updatedsince the last recorded dates from April 2020 when he was liaison secretary of the parliamentary group. At that moment he noticed 96 thousand 445 pesos per month, plus additional income such as Christmas bonus, holiday bonus and benefits.

Another example in the Chamber of Deputies is Ignacio Mier Velazco, celebrated the approval of “Plan B”. In 2022, he received a net salary of 74 thousand 994 pesos per month, however their additional income was not recorded.

if we go to Senatethe brunette Citlalli Hernandez He was a harsh critic of INE advisers, whom he even accused of being on the side of the opposition. The 32-year-old lawmaker won in 2022 per month 114 thousand 608 pesos.

It should be mentioned that, unlike legislators, INE administrators are not eligible for re-election in any other position within the organization.

According to the Animal Político portal, the last annual amount that was allocated to the wages of the 11 INE electoral advisers amounts to 34 million pesos.

If we go to the federal government, there are figures who have assured that the reform of AMLO does not affect democracy, but rather eliminates the privileges of the golden bureaucracy of the INE. As published this Friday by Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, head of the General Coordination of Social Communication and spokesperson for the Government of the Republic.

According to transparency, Ramírez Cuevas received a monthly salary of 119,161 pesos in 2022, plus an additional “pantry” income of 1,215 pesos.

In turn, Jenaro Villamil, president of the Mexican State Public Broadcasting System (SPR), who has done everything to spread the alleged benefits of “Plan B”, obtained in 2022 a salary of 101,890 pesos, plus a institutional life insurance, pantry and vacation bonus.

In this regard, the former president of the Federal Electoral Institute (INE), Luis Carlos Ugalde, pointed out that the reform of AMLO is populist, because even if people think it is a good decision to reduce the money to the arbitrator should not be a guide or a synonym for good public policy.

“I believe that the electoral system as a whole must be regulated, it is full of locks and prohibitions which make it very expensive; There are several positive things (in the proposal), but in terms of the stakes it seems to me that it is very harmful, ”he said in an interview for Milenio in November 2022.