“Designation puts plurality at risk”; controversy at the INE

After the president of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, appointed the head of the Transparency Department last Friday, using her new power to avoid asking for the opinion of other departments, and before Excelsior revealed that the official in question had hidden his resume for 11 months, the director Dania Ravel said that this appointment broke the collegiate designations and put plurality at risk.

In her X account, on February 23, Councilor Ravel explained that they were notified on Friday, through an official letter, “that the President Councilor appointed the Head of the Technical Unit for Transparency and Protection of Personal Data using the authority that the judicial reform conferred on her to appoint heads of units and executive directorates without the intervention of the General Council of the INE.”

He added that “this appointment breaks with the collegiate designations of the executive body of the institute that have existed since it was the IFE. The substitution of collegiate powers by the concentration of a single vision, regardless of the person who exercises it, puts plurality at risk, reduces the legitimacy of the designations and could also lead to undemocratic practices that are closer to discretion.”

He also recalled that, last November, the Legal Department was instructed to initiate a constitutional controversy before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation regarding the modifications to articles 45 and 48 of the LGIPE, which allow the presidency to make appointments without any counterweight and also to approve agreements from the General Executive Board, for the organization of elections, without going through the General Council.

According to information requested by Excelsior via the Inai platform, José Luis Arévalo hid his resume for 11 months, both from INE officials and from those who requested the information, he modified his CV to "adjust" it to the necessary profile and occupy the Information Directorate of the Social Communication Coordination, he had no idea that he could deliver that document with his personal data tested, but, on February 21, he was named Director of Transparency of the institute through the superpower granted to Guadalupe Taddei.