INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ELECTORAL RESULTS TRANSMISSION

FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDONESIA

INDEX

I. PRESENTATION 2

II. PARTICIPANTS 5

III. AGENDA 6

IV. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEXICAN POLITICAL-ELECTORAL SYSTEM 14

JAKARTA, JULY 2nd - 4th, 2013.

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I. PRESENTATION General Considerations The General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute approved the creation of the International Center for Electoral Training and Research (CICIE, by its acronym in Spanish) in September, 2010. Its purpose is to offer an international forum for training, updating and professionalization, in order to provide with new aptitudes (knowledge and skills) and new attitudes (values and behaviors) thru different training programs addressed to those responsible for organizing and managing the electoral processes, but under an empirical approach of sharing experiences, best practices and knowledge in the frame of the horizontal cooperation and, therefore, the active participation in the society of several actors of the international electoral system, in its conformation and programming. This initiative aims to justify the complexity in the organization of elections in which, during the last decade, new dynamics and challenges have emerged, such as: the over sighting of public and private funding of political parties and campaigns, regulation of political advertising and election campaign periods, the use of new technologies for issuing and counting of votes, the immediate provision of preliminary results, the vote from abroad and political representation of expatriates, the limitation on campaign spending and other mechanisms to ensure equitable conditions of competition. In this sense, it is important to refer to the main precedent of the Center. It is the International Program for Electoral Training and Research (PICIE), which is a mechanism of horizontal cooperation, developed by IFE with the United Nations Development Program in Mexico and the Federal Electoral Court. This Program is addressed to senior managers and executives, under a medium and large term perspective. It emphasizes the strategic planning for political leadership of the technical aspects in the electoral management. It also motivates the participation of other partners like the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Mexico (SRE), the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Association of European Electoral Officials (ACEEEO) and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), among others. Under this Program, from March 2004 to September 2012, 36 international workshops have been realized. We have responded the applications from electoral authorities of the five continents:

Africa America Asia Europe Total

2004 Haiti Iraq 2

2005 El Salvador (2)

Guatemala 3

2008 Bosnia &

Herzegovina 1

2009 Zambia

South Africa Guatemala

East Timor Lebanon

Philippines 6

2010 Burundi

Botswana Benin

Argentina (2) Macedonia 6

2011 Ethiopia

Botswana Kenya

Venezuela Guatemala

Nepal East Timor Afghanistan

Ukraine Georgia

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Egypt Egypt, Libya and Tunisia

Nigeria

Costa Rica Perú

El Salvador Guatemala

Romania Croatia

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Ethiopia

2013

Ecuador (2) Bolivia, Peru &

Colombia, Venezuela

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Within this framework, this International Workshop will assume the responsibility of providing with a comparative perspective and exchange of experiences on the main electoral challenges faced both by Mexico and Indonesia International Workshop on Electoral Results Transmission

Background

In January, 2013, the electoral authorities form the General Election Commission of Indonesia, showed interest for carrying out several activities and knowledge exchange on electoral training topics with the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). As part of these activities a workshop on Election Results Transmission was proposed to be hold in Indonesia by IFE officials. On June 10, 2013, signed in Jakarta, the application was sent by the Director of the General Election Commission of the Republic of Indonesia to carry out the event from July 2 to 4, 2013, which also specifies the intention of the GEC to include other electoral authorities belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Objectives

To contribute to the institutional strengthening through the exchange of knowledge and experiences between the General Election Commission of Indonesia and the Federal Electoral Institute of Mexico that may conduct to the improvement of the administrative processes.

To share knowledge and experiences on transmission of electoral results between the GEC and IFE on mechanisms that help to improve election administration practices with a focus, and the opportune timing of the communication and dissemination of theresults as elements that provide confidence, security and integrity to the electoral process.

To share experiences and practices relating to the political handling of the technical aspects on electoral results transmission. Main Topics

In order to fulfill the needs and the expectations expressed by the authorities from Indonesia, the International Workshop program will include the following topics:

Comparative Perspective on Electoral systems and bodies

Electoral Results Transmission

The EMB and its Relationship with Strategic Actors

EMB’s strategic communication and dissemination of Electoral Results

Meeting with GEC’s responsible of Electoral Results Department

Meeting with GEC’s responsible of Social Communications Department

Measuring Instruments for Tendencies on Electoral Voting

Technology for Electoral Results Transmission

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Methodology The International Workshop on Election Results Transmission provides a meeting and exchanging space very dynamic that allows linking theory with practical experience. The dynamics of the workshop will involve three stages:

1. Exposure of the main challenges and problems of the General Election Commission of Indonesia on the agenda, so that the speakers may have a greater understanding of the national context.

2. Presentation of comparative experiences from Mexico about some of the issues on the schedule.

3. Experience sharing sessions to delve into issues of interest according to the above for each of the speakers.

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II. PARTICIPANTS FEDERAL ELECTORAL INSTITUTE

Karina Sánchez has a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Masters in Communication Management from the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Shee has extensive experience in the public sector, where she began working in the Ministry of Social Development as coordinator of political analysis. She also worked in the Ministry of Public Service as Assistant Director of Advertising and Institutional Relations, where she gained experience in issues related to civil society strengthening in

transparency and fighting corruption. Before working on the IFE, she worked in the Mexican Foreign Ministry in the area of Social Communication and later as Press Attaché at the Consulate of Mexico in Barcelona. She has been a research assistant at the Institute for Social Research at the UNAM and has authored several publications and working papers on anti-corruption conventions, transparency and corporate social responsibility. Nowadays she is Manager of Analysis and Evaluation at the National Coordination of Social Communication in IFE.

Yuri González is Assistant Director of Technology and Computer Security in the Information Services Unit of the Federal Electoral Institute. During 2006, 2009 and 2012 was part of the group that was responsible for the design, implementation and coordination of testing the Preliminary Electoral Results Program. Its main tasks include proposing, consolidate and establish processes and procedures to maintain and enhance the safety and effective technology services and computer systems of the Federal Electoral Institute (www.ife.org.mx) according to the powers and

responsibilities set in its internal regulations.

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III. AGENDA

Tuesday July 2, 2013

Welcome

09.30 to 10.00 h 10:00 to 10:15 h

Opening Attendance: (Signing MoU for KPU side with ceremony) 1. Chairman of KPU 2. Commissioner of KPU 3. Embassy of Mexico 4. ASEAN Secretary 5. Secretary General of KPU 6. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 7. IFE Mexico 8. NEC Korea 9. EMB’s of ASEAN Country 10. Head/Vce Head of Secretariat General of KPU

Speech: 1. Chairman of KPU 2. Ambassador of Mexico 3. ASEAN Secretary

10:15 to 10:20 h Olga Karina Sánchez, Manager of Analysis and Evaluation, National Coordination of Social

Communication, IFE México 10:20 to 10:25 h Yuri González, Assistant Manager of Technology and Computer Security, UNICOM, IFE

México 10:25 to 10:30 h Break

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Session 1: Comparative Perspective on Electoral systems and bodies

Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia

10:30 to 11:00 h The electoral system. Indonesia’s GEC: main functions and characteristics

GEC of Indonesia

11:00 to 11:20 h Exchange session

11:20 to 11:50 h Mexico’s electoral system. IFE’s main functions and characteristics

Olga Karina Sánchez, Manager of Analysis and Evaluation, National Coordination of Social

Communication, IFE México

11:50 to 12:10 h Exchange session

Session 2: Electoral Results Transmission

Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia

15:00 to 16:20 h Mexico’s Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission

PREP general overview

Legal Framework

Counting and tallying systems

PREP operative process

Yuri González, Assistant Manager of Technology and Computer Security, UNICOM, IFE

México

16:20 to 17:00 h Exchange session

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Wednesday July 3, 2013

Session 3: The EMB and its Relationship with Strategic Actors

Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia

9:30 to 11:00 h EMBs relationship with political parties and media

The political parties as a support for the electoral results transmission program

Relationship between EMBs and Political Parties

The political parties during results transmission

Relationship between EMB and media

Regulation on results information Olga Karina Sánchez, Manager of Analysis and Evaluation, National Coordination of Social Communication, IFE México

11:00 to 11:30 Exchange Session

Session 4: EMB’s strategic communication and dissemination of Electoral Results

Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia 11:45 to 12:30 h Communication mechanisms during electoral results transmission

Media relevance in results transmission

Communication issues inside the EMB

Communication issues towards citizens

Olga Karina Sánchez, Manager of Analysis and Evaluation, National Coordination of Social Communication, IFE México

12:30 to 12:50 h Exchange Session

12:50 to 14:30 h Lunch

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Session 5: Meeting with GEC’s responsible of Electoral Results Department Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia 14:30 to 15:30 h Indonesian electoral results department

Responsibilities

Activities

Equipment

Main issues and difficulties

Challenges

Head of Electoral Results Department, GEC of Indonesia 15:30 to 16:00 h Exchange Session

Session 6: Meeting with GEC’s responsable of Social Communications Department Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia 16:00 to 17:00 h Indonesian social communications department

Responsibilities

Activities

Equipment

Main issues and difficulties

Challenges

Head of the Social Communications Department, GEC of Indonesia 17:00 to 17:30 h Exchange Session

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Thursday July 4, 2013

Session 7: Measuring Instruments for Tendencies on Electoral Voting Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia

9:30 to 10:30 h Characteristics, regulations, reliability and impact of this instruments on electoral processes

Opinion polls

Exit polls

Quick counting

Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission

Yuri González, Assistant Manager of Technology and Computer Security, UNICOM, IFE México

10:30 to 10:50 h Exchange Session

10:50 to 11:00 h Break

Sesión 8: Technology for Electoral Results Transmission Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia

11:00 to 12:30 h Technology applied on electoral results transmission

Characteristics, equipment, requirements

Security and reliability for the results transmission program

Budget, planning, investment

Technology development

Yuri González, Assistant Manager of Technology and Computer Security, UNICOM, IFE México 12:30 to 13:00 h Exchange Session

Session 9: Exchange Session Moderator: General Election Commission of Indonesia

15:00 to 16:00 h Dialogue between GEC of Indonesia and IFE’s Authorities for final balance and questions.

Closing

19.00 to 21.00 h

Closing Ceremony with Culture Performance

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V. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEXICAN POLITICAL-ELECTORAL SYSTEM a) Political System

Political Organization: Representative and democratic federal republic, integrated by 32 autonomous entities (31

states and the Federal District).

Form of Government: Presidential.

Federal Executive Power: unipersonal and resides in the President of the republic, who is elected by popular vote for

a single six-year term. The president may not serve a second term under any circumstances. The President is both the

chief of state and head of government.

Federal Legislative Power: resides in the National Congress, made up of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

The Chamber of Deputies consists of 500 members that serve three-year terms. The Senate consists of 128 members

that serve six-year terms. Congressional representatives may not seek consecutive reelection.

b) Electoral Management Bodies

There are two main concerns regarding electoral matter that determine the distribution of competences. First, the

Federation, as well as the 32 states, has their own regulations, institutions and procedures in electoral matter. That is

to say, the boundaries between the electoral competences of the two levels of government are clearly marked. Hence,

although they have some fundamental rules in common, federal elections (President, Representatives and Senators)

and local elections (Governors, State Representatives and local authorities) are ruled and organized separately.

Second, the administrative and the jurisdictional functions are clearly separated and therefore are given to different

organs for each level of government.

The Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) gets the administrative powers that belong to the federal level; that is to say, those

related to the election of the President, the members of the Lower Chamber and the Senators. The jurisdictional

activities belong to the Federal Electoral Court, a specialized organ of the Judicial Branch of the Federation that has

the faculty to solve, in certain cases and as last instance, any local electoral controversy.

The Institute is located in the Federal District

(Mexico City), but acts all over the country through

a wide net of decentralized organs that represent it

in the capital cities of the 32 states and in the 300

electoral districts, in which the country has been

divided into for electoral purposes.

The IFE has the power to perform fully and directly

all the duties related to the preparation,

organization, conduction and surveillance of federal

elections, including the revision and adjustment of

electoral geography, the integration and updating

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of the electoral roll, the attention due to the rights, obligations and prerogatives of the political parties and national

political groups, the creation and execution of permanent programs for voters’ education, and the administration of

free time on radio and TV.

IFE’s organizational structure

The IFE’s General Council is the highest directive organ of the Institute; therefore, its main responsibility is to

monitor the compliance with constitutional and legal provisions on electoral matters and to ensure that Institute guides

itself under the principles of certainty, legality, independence, impartiality and objectivity. It is composed of nine

members that have voice and vote, and a variable number of members only with voice.

The nine members with voice and vote are the President Councilor and eight Electoral Councilors. They are

elected by the vote of two thirds of the Chamber of Deputies, among the proposals made by the parliamentary groups

and subject to wide consultation with the society. The President Councilor is elected to serve a period of six years (the

period of the current President began on February 2008) and can be reelected only once. All eight council members

are elected on a staggered basis to serve a period of nine years and cannot be reelected.

The members with voice are the councilors of the Legislature (now seven, one from each parliamentary group),

representatives of political parties (also currently seven) and the Institute’s Executive Secretary, who is appointed and

removed by the President Councilor’s proposal and two thirds of the General Council’s vote.

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c) Voters Registry

The exact and timely registration, as well as the updating and permanent refinement of the diverse instruments

that contain the names and personal information of all Mexican citizens that hold the right to vote, constitutes an

essential requirement to guarantee the transparency and reliability of the electoral processes.

In Mexico, the vote is universal, free, secret, direct, personal and not transferable. All persons with Mexican

nationality, by birth or by naturalization, who are 18 years of age or older, and have an honest way of living, have the

right to vote. However, in order to exercise this right, the law establishes certain additional requirements such as

registration of the citizen in the Federal Registry of Voters and possession of a photo-voting card, which is issued free

of charge by the Federal Electoral Institute.

The electoral registry in Mexico is of an active nature, that is, it is responsibility of the citizens who fulfill the

requirements, to attend, carry out and complete their registration in person before one of the field offices or modules

set up for this purpose by the IFE throughout the country.

In any case, the registration process is verified by an accurate geographic-electoral frame in accordance to the voters’

home address within the national territory which also determines the place where, as a general rule, the citizens must

vote. The specific territorial site is called electoral section, which is the basic geographical unit into which the national

territory is divided for electoral purposes. According to the law, an electoral section is made up of a minimum of 50 and

a maximum of 1,500 voters; within the limits of each section, a polling booth or site must be installed for every 750

registered voters.

It is important to point out that the registry of voters is federal, which implies that it is also used for local elections.

The use of the instruments from the Federal Registry of Voters for such purpose is formalized through collaboration

agreements between the IFE and the local governments and electoral authorities.

d) Electoral Training

The electoral training provides the tools to different actors (citizens acting as election polling site officers political

parties, electoral observers, citizens) involved in the development, monitoring and observation of electoral processes

to fulfill the entrusted task.

Polling station officers: Citizens selected randomly, by means of two drawings, to receive, count

and register the votes during Election- Day. The training program is based on the cascade program

as shown in the chart:

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• Electoral Supervisors and Electoral Assistant Training: To rely on staff to assist the notification, appointment’s delivery and training of the citizens who will serve as polling site board officials.

• Integration of the Polling Site Directive Boards First Stage To notify, make aware and integrate the list of eligible citizens by section, from the drawn citizens (10% of the

nominal list)

The stages for the integration of the polling stations according the art 240 of the COFIPE are:

1. General Council raffle

2. First Training course:

Training Modes: a) In situ: Teaching platform: Cognitive approach, constructivist theory and skills

development. b) Individual or group: Home address; Alternative space determined by the EAT;

Temporary of fixed training centers.

Materials: Basic information for the drawn citizens, manual of electoral trainer-assistant (volume 1

and 1), electoral supervisor manual , polling station officer manual, document with the different

stages of the election day, recommendations for the training courses for indigenous population,

notification letter

3. Objective evaluation

Second Stage

The stages for the integration of the polling site stations directive boards according the art 240 of the COFIPE

are:

1. Raffle done by General Council

2. Second Raffle (councils) and designation of positions (boards)

3. Publication list

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4. Notification ad second stages of training (substitutions, drills and practices)

Materials: Polling station officer manual, exercise notebooks, polling station officer Manual( special

polling station), exercise notebooks(special polling stations), informative brochure on the Election Day,

document with the different stages of the election day, document “Important aspects to carefully watch out

during the election day” (drills and polling stations), list of activities of the FMDC (drills and polling stations),

video of the election day, interactive CD, sample materials and documents for drills and practices, data form

for the course for polling station officers, notifications

e) Electoral organization

Composition and Location of the Polling Site Directive Boards

The polling site directive boards are the electoral bodies which are instated on the day of the election for the

reception and preliminary counting of votes. The electoral section constitutes the basic geographic unit used to

determine the location of the polling site directive boards. By law, an electoral section should comprehend a minimum

of 50 and a maximum of 1,500 voters and should install a poling site for every 750 voters or corresponding fraction.

Each polling site directive board is made up by a president, a secretary, and two scrutinizers, as well as by

three general substitutes, a total of seven members. All of them must reside in the corresponding electoral section and

must be included in the respective voters list. These posts are distributed according to their education level. For the

fulfillment of their duties, the members of the directive board receive two training courses designed and implemented

by the IFE, which may be supervised by the political parties.

The ruling legislation establishes that the polling sites should be located in places with free and easy access for

voters, that allow the installation of booths or modules that guarantee secrecy in the casting of the vote, and that

places which may be susceptible to influencing should be avoided. To this end, the preferred locations would be

schools and public offices. In any case, it corresponds to the district councils of the IFE to determine the number and

location of the polling site that will be installed in the sections included within their area of jurisdiction. According to

estimates, for the day of the election of July 5, 2009, there will be about 140,000 polling sites installed throughout the

national territory.

In order to let voters know, in a timely and accurate fashion, the makeup and location of the polling sites where

they must cast their vote, the law mandates that the exact location of the polling sites to be installed in each section, as

well as the names of the members of the directive board, shall be published up to two times prior to the election day.

Polling Day

The polling day is undoubtedly the crucial stage of the electoral process. During this stage, the citizens cast

their votes, which will determine the integration of the national representation bodies.

The polling day starts at 8:00 a.m. with the installation and opening of the polling sites, and ends with the closing

of the sites, after the scrutiny and tally of the votes received in each one of the sites have been carried out and the

respective electoral dossiers have been put together.

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Installation and Opening of the Polling Site

At 8:00 a.m., the four regular members of the directive board shall install the polling site before the political

party representatives that are present. A polling site may never be installed before 8:00 a.m., and the directive board

officials may not leave before it is closed.

If a polling site is not installed according to the ordinary procedure, the electoral law provides a series of

sequential alternatives, the last of which authorizes the political party representatives (in the absence of the previously

appointed polling site officials or IFE staff) to appoint the necessary officials to integrate a polling site directive board.

These officials may only be elected from among the voters of the electoral section who are present at the polling site to

cast their vote, since no party representative may be appointed.

Installing the polling site at a different place than the one previously determined by the proper electoral

agency constitutes grounds for the annulment of the votes received in it. Therefore, the law specifies the

circumstances in which there could be a justified cause for the installment of the polling site at a different place from

the one agreed beforehand by the respective district council. If the directive board must change the location of the

polling site, the new location must be within the same section and at the nearest available setting. A notification of the

change of location must be posted outside the original site.

Voting

Polling sites are places specially adapted to receive and carry out the initial vote tallying. The amount of

polling sites installed throughout the national territory is based on the electoral sections, which are the minimum units

into which the national geography is divided for election purposes. An electoral section is made up of a minimum of 50

and a maximum of 1,500 voters. The law provides for the installation of a polling site for every 750 voters or

corresponding fraction of an electoral section.

In general terms, voters must cast their vote in the polling site to be found in the electoral section that

corresponds to their home address. The law establishes that the lists that indicate the exact location of the polling sites

must be published up to twice before the election, but it is common to publish them again on the polling day itself in the

main printed media of each state, so that the voters find their corresponding polling site easily.

It is possible that on polling day voters will not attend their corresponding polling site because they are

temporarily out of their electoral section. In this event, the law allows voters to cast their vote in a special polling site,

considering a series of conditions and restrictions regarding the geographic location of the voters and of the special

sites. The legislation also establishes that there may only be a maximum of five special polling sites per electoral

district.

Each polling site is headed by a directive board consisting of a president, a secretary and two scrutinizers, as well

as three general substitutes, for a total amount of seven members. All the members of a polling site are citizens that

live in the respective electoral section. They are selected through a double draw set forth by law, and according to their

education. In order to carry out their tasks, they attend training courses designed and taught by the electoral authority

that may be supervised by the political parties.

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Counting

Both the scrutiny operations, which are those required to reconcile and verify the amount of electors that

voted in each polling site and to destroy the remaining ballots, and the tallying operations, those dealing with the

counting of votes cast for each political party or candidate and the null ballots, are conducted by the directive board

officials of each polling site throughout the country.

All these operations are witnessed by accredited electoral observers and international visitors as well as by the

representatives of the political parties who may submit claims as well as.

The general public, the political parties, the coalitions, and the candidates themselves have different means of

learning about the preliminary results of the elections on polling day.

Shortly after the closing of voting in each polling site, the first publication of results is carried out. The law sets forth

that the president of each polling site must post the results of the election in a visible place outside the corresponding

site once the counting process is over.

However, the law authorizes the Executive Secretary of the Federal Electoral Institute to set a mechanism that

provides immediate access of the results to the General Council, with the purpose of making the information available

to the Councilors and accredited political party representatives as soon as possible.

Since 1994, the IFE has implemented and perfected a Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP), which

allows the electronic transmission of data from each of the 300 district committees to a national center, by means of

state of the art technology. These results are publicly broadcasted in a national pressroom and through the Internet at

the moment they are received.

Besides, the law authorizes the President of the General Council, with the agreement of the Council itself, to

order the conduction of studies or pertinent procedures, in order to get to know the electoral trends on the polling day,

which may only be broadcasted when the maximum collegiate body of the IFE authorizes it.

The prohibition to publish or broadcast results or opinion surveys on electoral preferences through any means is

void as of 20h00 central time. Usually, the electronic communications media publicize the results of exit polls and of

quick counts at this time.

f) Political parties’ prerogatives: financing and access media

Registry: For political parties participate in elections and perform all the functions that are inherent to them,

parties must obtain their legal registration, which gives them a set of rights, privileges and obligations. To

maintain its registration, at least it must obtain 2% of the total vote in a federal election.

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Currently, in Mexico there are seven political parties at Federal level

Partido Acción Nacional (PAN)

Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)

Partido de la Revolución Democrática

Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM)

Partido del Trabajo (PT)

Nueva Alianza

Movimiento Ciudadano

Financing: There are two sources for financing: public and private funds. Public financing is divided into three

fields: permanent ordinary activities, specific activities as entities of public interest (both yearly financing) and

campaign expenditures.

The total amount of ordinary public financing per year is linked to the number of registered voters and the legal

minimum wage. The number results from multiplying the total amount of citizens registered in the electoral roll up to

July times 65% of the minimum wage currently in force in the Capital City.

The subsidy granted for specific activities as entities of public interest aims at supporting political parties in activities

that concern political training and education, socio-economic and political research, as well as editorial tasks. With this

purpose, an additional amount that equals 3% the amount for ordinary activities, is granted and is also distributed on

the same grounds.

As for private funding for campaign expenditures in general federal elections (those for President, Senators

and members of the Lower Chamber), each party gets an amount equivalent to 50% of the financing that it had

received for ordinary expenses. In case of intermediate legislative elections, the political parties get 30% of the normal

yearly funding.

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It is important to remark that each financing mechanism is distributed in the same way: 30% is allocated in

equal parts to all political parties with parliamentary representation and the other 70% is distributed according to the

percentage of votes gained of the total sum cast for each political party with representation in Congress in the

preceding election for Lower Chamber members at national level.

For political parties that obtained their registration after the last federal election or that kept their registry but do not

have representation in Congress, the law establishes that each one of them must receive public funding as follows: 2%

of the total amount that corresponds to political parties for permanent ordinary activities; the corresponding additional

amount for electoral expenses and only the equalitarian part of the funding for specific activities.

Media Access: Recent constitutional and legal reforms have brought significant modifications in this matter.

Although political parties had guaranteed permanent and free access to radio and television, they were also

allowed to hire additional time slots during electoral periods.

The main novelty is that nowadays the free access is the only way political parties and their candidates may

transmit electoral advertisement through radio and television that, in Mexico, operate under a scheme of licenses and

concessions granted by the State. With this reform and by constitutional mandate, neither the political parties, nor any

other subject may hire time slots in electronic media for electoral purposes.

To operate the new scheme of access and the use of radio and television for electoral purposes, the law appoints

the IFE as the sole authority for the management of the time owned by the State in those media for all electoral bodies,

federal and local authorities, as well as political parties that contend in the federal and local elections.

The law itself details criteria and procedures for the allocation of that time (that during electoral periods adds up to

48 minutes a day en each radio station and television channel within the country) between the electoral authorities and

the different political parties.

Also as a result of the recent reforms, the Constitution establishes that during the period comprising the federal

and local campaigns and until the end of the corresponding polling day, the broadcasting of all government

propaganda must be interrupted except for that of education and health services, or the one needed to protect the

citizenry in emergencies.

Likewise, the recent reforms rocketed a decree to constitutional level. The new law states that political or electoral

propaganda disclosed by the political parties must not include expressions that denigrate the institutions, the parties

themselves or slander the people.

g) Oversight and expenditures control of political parties

As a result of the reform, a new specialized autonomous administrative unit was created within the IFE with

responsibilities related to the reception and the integral revision of the reports presented by political parties regarding

the origin, amount and destination of the financial resources.

Such is the Oversight Unit for the Resources of Political Parties, which will not be limited in its performance by the

banking, fiscal or fiduciary secrets established by other laws. In this regard, the parties are not only compelled to

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present annual financial and campaign reports, but also must present the following: quarterly advance reports of their

exercise in non-electoral years; a consolidated annual statement of their assets and property; pre-campaign reports for

each of their pre-candidates to elective posts, within the following 30 days of the conclusion of the pre-campaign;

report of the expenses of organization of the intern and pre-campaign processes for the selection of candidates

included in the annual financial report; and a preliminary report of campaign expenses, with updated data as of May 30

on election year.

h) Electoral Justice

The General Law for the Settlement of Electoral Disputes specifically stipulates the disagreement procedure to

challenge, only during the stage of results and declaration of validity of the elections, the decisions of the federal

electoral authorities that are allegedly in breach of constitutional or legal norms regarding the elections for President,

Senators, and Deputies.

The system comprises the different appeals and procedures that may be filed for each one of the federal election

posts. Only political parties and candidates are entitled to appeal, although candidates can do so only when because

of illegibility reasons the electoral authorities do not grant certificate of majority or first minority. In any case, appeals

must be filed within the first four days following the day in which the counting of the

election is finished. All appeals for the election of Deputies (and, if needed, Senators) must be resolved by August

3, less than a month after the election.

Besides, the law comprises the appeal of reconsideration to challenge the resolutions set forth by the TEPJF

for the appeals regarding the election of Deputies and Senators and allocation of seats by the General Council of the

IFE by means of proportional representation. The resolution of such appeals is exclusive of the High Chamber of the

TEPJF, and in any case must be resolved three days prior the establishment of the Chambers of the Congress of the

Union, that is, not after August 26, of the election year.

If the results are challenged by the disagreement procedure or lastly by means of the reconsideration challenge, they

are only final when the authorized bodies of the TEPJF issue the corresponding resolutions, within the timeframe

stated by law and according to the terms of such resolution.

When the counting, certificate of validity and majority or allocation are not challenged within the timeframe or by

the correct means, they are considered as valid, final and undisputable four days after the IFE concludes the

corresponding counting, since that is the term for the political parties to file disagreement challenges.

Also as a result of the recent reforms and to offer more security, reliability and transparency to the results of an

election, the current electoral law explicitly comprises the feasibility of tallying the votes for a second time when the

district counting takes place, that is, when the votes cast in every site of the districts into which the country is divided

for electoral purposes, are added. These counting takes place the Wednesday after polling day.

The district re-count may be partial or total. Partial re-counts apply to Lower Chamber members’ election only,

and refer to the votes cast in a determined number of polling sites under some theories provided by the law. The total

re-count comprises not only the votes cast in all the polling sites in a district, but is applicable to elections for Deputies,

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Senators or President in equal circumstances and operates by direct request when the difference between the winning

candidate and the second place is equal to or less than one per cent.

NATIONAL ELECTIONS Recent Federal Elections: on July 1st, 2012 were held the general federal elections to renew the president of the Republic, 128 senators and 500 deputies.Furthermore, local elections were held on 16 states. Altogether, 2,127 positions were in dispute across the country (629 at a federal level and 1498 at local level). Seven political parties participated in this election. 2012 Electoral Results:

- President of the Republic:

Political Party Candidate Vote %

“Compromiso por México” Coalition (Revolutionary Institutional Party + Mexican

Green Ecologist Party)

Enrique Peña Nieto 38.21%

“Movimiento Progresista” Coalition (Democratic Revolution Party + Work Party +

Citizen Movement)

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

31.61%

National Action Party Josefina Vázquez Mota 25.39%

New Alliance Party Gabriel Quadri 2.29%

- Deputies Chamber:

Political Party Seats won

PAN 114

PRI 212

PRD 104

PVEM 29

PT 15

MC 16

PANAL 10

TOTAL 500

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- Senators Chamber:

Political Party Seats won

PAN 38

PRI 54

PRD 22

PVEM 7

PT 5

MC 1

PANAL 1

TOTAL 128

Voters registered: 77’738,494 Participation: 49’087,446 (63.14%) Electoral logistics: 143,132 polling stations were installed and 1,002,057 citizens were trained to serve as polling stations officers, of which 572,604 Electoral Justice: 1,218 complaints were presented