The General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) votes this Tuesday, August 18, on the draft resolution distributing 10,842,653,927 pesos in public financing among the eight national political parties and independent candidacies for 2027. The figure advances to a vote after approval by the Prerogatives and Political Parties Commission, according to El Financiero.
The figure sets the budget ceiling on which each political force builds its operation for the 2027 midterm election, in which all 500 seats of the Chamber of Deputies will be renewed. The formula is fixed in Article 41 of the Constitution: 30% of the financing is distributed equally and 70% proportionally to the vote share obtained in the 2024 federal deputies election. According to Aristegui Noticias, the draft adds to the 36,119,143,896 pesos approved by the INE's Temporary Budget Commission on July 29, bringing the institution's total requested budget to 46,961 million pesos for 2027.
Of the total, 7,879,331,706 pesos are allocated to ordinary activities; 2,363,799,512 pesos to voter outreach; 315,173,272 pesos to postal prerogatives; and 236,379,950 pesos to women's political leadership. Morena leads all allocations with 3,604,879,379 pesos, of which 805,615,074 pesos correspond to the electoral process. Independent candidacies will have access to a pool of 47,275,990 pesos. Regarding the newly registered parties, PAZ and Somos México, PAZ representative Ernesto Guerra noted that their allocation is lower than that of the six forces with prior representation; Councilor Uuc-kib Espadas responded that a new party does not receive the same treatment as forces with accredited electoral backing.
Tuesday's approval enables the next step: the draft will proceed to the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit and to the Chamber of Deputies for budgetary processing. The 2027 calendar, which beyond the federal deputies also includes Judicial Branch processes and 17 governorships, thus has the resources to sustain it.
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