This afternoon, CAINTRA's Board of Directors, chaired by Rodrigo Fernandez, met with Lorenzo Cordova, President of the National Electoral Institute (INE); Lorenzo Cordova, President of the National Fernández, met with Lorenzo Cordova, President of the National Electoral Institute (INE). the objective of the session was to discuss his vision of democracy in Mexico, challenges, risks and where we are heading, as well as his and where we are going; as well as his assessment of INE, the process towards 2024, and the role of citizenship and civil society in all of these and civil society in all these exercises.

Lorenzo Cordova mentioned that there is currently a social dissatisfaction/discontent with democracy, together with a crisis of credibility democracy, coupled with a crisis of credibility in the central institutions of democratic processes, parties and parliaments, as well as an environment that has democratic processes, parties and parliaments, as well as an environment that has disinformation and increasingly polarized societies. These circumstances have unfortunately generated the conditions to open a debate on electoral reform at a particularly These circumstances have unfortunately created the conditions to open a debate on electoral reform at a particularly complicated time, as we are on the eve of 2024.

"Today there is no need for an electoral reform, with the current rules and institutions, we can carry out the elections in the coming years without major problems. We can carry out the elections in the next few years without major problems. Since INE was created Since INE was created, we have organized more than 330 elections, none of which have involved an electoral conflict. Lorenzo Cordova pointed out; he also mentioned that currently there is a 6.6% alternation rate in the currently has an alternation rate of 62%, which in reality speaks of a robust democratic system that is effective and functional. system that is effective and functional.

CAINTRA industrialists, in the voice of its president Rodrigo Fernandez, reaffirmed their call to build and maintain a reliable, truthful and open system to elect their governors. to build and maintain a reliable, truthful and open system to elect their governors; as well as their support to all those initiatives that, built in consensus and listening to all and its support to all those initiatives that, built in consensus and listening to all voices in a legitimate way, we and listening to all voices in a legitimate manner, allow us to strengthen our current democratic system. They also agreed that if there is one thing we must continue to build in our democracy, it is the way to further increase transparency, certainty and transparency. transparency, certainty and citizen participation.

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