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IFE twenty years in the pursuit of democratic normalcy and credibility

agency directors accept mistakes and failures in the conduct of the different processes.

Alonso Urrutia

newspaper La Jornada
Monday October 11, 2010, p. 7

On December 1988, the country plunged into a deep political crisis, before The Congress gave Carlos Salinas de Gortari in his swearing-in:

propose a new political agreement to strengthen our unity and to accommodate our diferencias.Tiene to be an agreement to refine the electoral procedures, update the system parties and modernize the practices of political actors, starting with the government. That was the genesis of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) and the beginning of the end of the old political regime.

Today, Monday 11 October, the 20th anniversary of the founding of the electoral management body established in 1990. It's been a long journey with successive reforms and challenges. The intense debate to reduce the slot of the ballot box an inch to 3 mm, remove the dead the electoral register, the current dilemma that confronts a key institution in the democratic transition with large consortiums of television, for which democracy grew from be a big deal to a luxury too expensive now that you no longer earn money.

The dominant party was mortally wounded

The IFE is the result of the hegemonic party system was damaged in death. There was no credibility and the country could not stand the 1988 elections as , summarizes the former counsel and current electoral commissioner of the Federal President Access to Information and Data Protection, Jaqueline Peschard, whose electoral management body coincided with the alternation in power. A 20-year

its central contribution has been the transition to democratic normality election, for its part maintains the former Minister Lourdes Lopez, who emphasized that ensuring political pluralism has not been sufficient to achieve social or economic equality. is paradoxical that we are an electoral democracy with an unequal society with terrible problems of insecurity. While the company is concerned, citizens can hardly be more involved in this class is the experience of democracy .

In turn, the election director Marco Antonio Baños-charge of the Electoral Commission during elections Organization 2009 - believes that in these 20 years, the IFE has overcome challenges to consolidate the democratic transition, but has faced complex moments as the 1994 elections, a year convulsive, or the controversy in 2006 when the performance paradigm where the institute fell short against a very complex reality .

Protagonist of the boom years of the IFE, as the passage of the consolidation of its organizational roles played results in favor of the election authority to be achieved alternation in the presidency, Peschard joint stresses that were once favorable to consolidation.

are incidental issues of the organization, depends on the situation, which is fortuitous. In 2000, with velvety transition, there was a winner with a significant margin, but from the perspective of the IFE must distinguish favorable performance of the institute, and I think that has been consolidating its work said.

- IFE spent 2000, his moment of greatest recognition of its greatest crisis in six years?

"In 2006 the situation was very unfavorable, but the institute made mistakes. The problem was environment and poor communication acted naive and failed to communicate what was happening and that led to the credibility of the institution was hit, but in defense I must say that the rules had provided him hard to tackle elements situation with a result so narrow.

Now there is a better electoral legislation has partially recovered the credibility of the IFE, placing it in a better way to 2012, when the challenges are even greater, resulting largely from the new model of political communication with the body facing electronic media.

The IFE must work hard with the political parties to have their support in the logic of responsibility in elections, said Peschard.

"Despite the electoral gains, has been a poor balance of democracy?

"There was an oversized expectations of democracy. It was thought that fair elections would have reduced economic growth and social inequality. We have had divided government incentives have not generated the opposition to work together to set policy.

To Lourdes Lopez, the balance of the plurality has not yielded to abate the problems of society. Plurality does not reflect the social policy and this has been the primary deficit of democracy, because it seems that no one was prepared for coexistence policy, starting with the parties, who have favored short-term vision to win election to the responsibility of governing .

Shares responsibility for the conduct of the IFE in the most difficult moments of its history, in 2006, Lopez denied the existence of fraud in these elections. not there at the end of the catalog that was before, which has been gradually diluted. The IFE bet only counting the votes and not to monitor how these votes were built , as played by various factors affecting negatively.

The electoral body's authority was exceeded, there were failures and never understood that the parties were favoring their interests , says the former adviser. It was a misreading confident in the glory of 2000 and the result is that the IFE was badly hurt its credibility and walks very vulnerable by 2012. His grip is very weak public credibility and there is an adverse social climate, because society is more concerned with the problems of insecurity in democracy. Marco Antonio Baños

part of the generation that will lead the destinies of the institute in the 2012 elections. In this context, recognizes that the way to that vote is given in a very complex, with serious problems of insecurity, an economy that stands out and a great social inequality. The disappointment with the results of democracy is undeniable, but it is something that goes beyond the capabilities of the electoral authority, which he has contributed to a democratic transition. Although

indicates that in the 2009 elections recovered the credibility of the IFE, with a surge in voting on the historical trend of intermediate elections in its balance between 2006 and 2012 Bath acknowledges that there were many errors in the last election president, coupled with insufficient legislation that reflected a decade without reforms to adapt the law to new reality.

also warns of the urgency of reforms to bolster the school in specific areas such as computing. Otherwise be forced to address the weaknesses IFE General Council agreements. The counselor agree that the most complex of 2012 will be the arbitration, because the political actors have already warned that anticipated events will be pre-campaign: some have announced tour, other promotional broadcast in their movements and some more link their image to their achievements in government.

election will be a complex and IFE will work in restoring their confidence levels , which has been a key element in the evolution electoral body in these two decades, concludes Baños.