Electoral Institute of Oaxaca, "referee sold? Litigation by affected application 
Monday, May 31, 2010 23:10 Villaurrutia Homer
demonstrated that the opacity in the bidding process four vital programs to ensure transparent elections, and above all suspicion of fraud, State Electoral Institute (IEE) has been publicly challenged by the Coalition United for Peace and Progress " and by the national leaderships of the PAN and the PRD, to give clear accounts of all administrative and legal process that followed the General Executive Board, through the Procurement Committee, in order to consolidate contracts for just over 80 million for the development of material electoral printing ballots, electoral records and other documentation, general monitoring service to radio and television stations in Oaxaca
and operation of the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP).
After denouncing the President of the IEE, José Luis Echeverría, as the instrument of the PRI and the state government to orchestrate a possible electoral fraud in Oaxaca Jesus Ortega, national leader of the PRD, and Cesar Nava, PAN's national president, stated that the Procurement Committee of the General Executive Board, chaired by its Director General, Othoniel Montor Melchor Pena, took powers because it did not correspond with On 10 February the General Council of the IEE only empowered the General Board to "establish" guidelines and procedures for carrying out the bidding for four programs. " Under no circumstances was authorized to receive proposals and issue rulings to sign contracts, said in a document, dated May 12, to which the headline: "Chronicle of announced an electoral fraud. "
companies which alluded to the PAN and the PRD are:
Verification and Monitoring, who was awarded a contract for 13 million 918 thousand pesos to take charge of monitoring the radio and television newscasts of the entity from the pre-campaign stage.
Proisi Group, SA de CV, Coahuila state, which was awarded a contract for 16 million 240 thousand pesos to implement the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) for the 4th of July.
Design, Rebuilding and Communication SA de CV, benefited from a contract in the amount of 39 million 810 thousand pesos for the preparation of all election material essentially screens and ballot boxes.
Litho Forms, SA de CV, whose legal representation signed contract to print the ballots and tally sheets for a total of 12 million 875 thousand pesos.
But the General Executive Board of the IEE not only violated an agreement by the General Council, but also informed the representatives of political parties accredited by the General Council on the background of the companies contracted, refusing also to provide the basis for the bidding process and to deliver copies of the contracts with each of the companies mentioned above.
The argument is obviously false: it is proprietary and confidential information, said the President, José Luis Echeverría. However, when I finally decided to report partial results of the tender had already delivered 50 percent down payment to the winning companies, a move that served to prevent the cast down the contracts, especially with the company Litho forms for printing of ballots and tally sheets. The report Othoniel
According to the report submitted by the Director General, Othoniel Pérez Montoro, at the special meeting of the General Council of the IEE meeting on 10 May, the Procurement Committee of the IEE conducted national competitive bidding the hiring of General Monitoring Service Radio and Television acquiring the rules of the call only two companies: Verification and Monitoring and BDTR.Net SA de CV
Without going into details in his report Montor Peña reports that on March the company only applied for Monitoring Verification and registration "contest", why, and then run out the stages of receiving technical and financial proposals, the Committee ruled in his favor, in the presence of the Comptroller, Juan Ruiz Aquino and counselor Ariel Orlando Morales.
The report fails to mention the background of the companies fined recently by the State Institute of Veracruz by inconsistencies in their work and for failure contract, and why, before the recording of a single company, there was not awarded the tender to convene a restricted invitation, as established state and federal regulations on the subject.
With respect to public tender for the procurement of electoral material, the Director General of the EIA reported that companies who bought the call guidelines were Dicaplast, Design, Rebuilding and Communication, Box Graf, Forms and Aprocel Fine. In total five companies also registered for the contest.
However, the report says, "in the analysis and verification of documentation and requirement, the only company that met all design requirements was requested, Reconstruction and Communication ", who eventually was awarded the contract.
Coincidence or cunning plan, but the fact is that three years ago in the electoral process of 2007 in the state of Tlaxcala, companies Dicaplast, Graf and Design Building, Reconstruction and Communication participated in the national public tender called by the electoral body of that entity. And at that time the contract was assigned to the company Dicaplast.
For the tender to operate the PREP, the Procurement Committee of the General Meeting of IEE you processed the purchase of the bases of the call and registration only Proisi Group Company. In this way the bid was a mere simulation to cover up what the facts are established in a direct award to a company that, among its negative background, is the fact that he dropped the PREP system in the 2007 election in the state of Veracruz.
For the acquisition of election material outlined in the Report of the Director General of the IEE, companies competed and Litho Forms Smart Forms, assigning the contract to the latter "who met all established requirements." Hide information
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All these alleged bid were observed between the months of February and the first half of April. And during that period only the representative of the Convergence Party, Victor Hugo Alejo Torres, emphasized to the President of the IEE, José Luis Echeverria for documentary information from the process without getting a positive response, behavior that led to resort to the State Electoral Tribunal and the Court the Judiciary of the Federation to try to achieve by this route.
However, his position was not supported either by Dagoberto Carreño, the PAN representative to the General Council of the IEE, and by Antonio Álvarez Martínez, representative of the PRD, both mentioned in the newspaper column Interdict News to respond to interests contrary to those of the opposition coalition and acting in complicity with Echeverría Morales.
However, since many of the irregularities detected with these four bids were discussed in the Daily News by the writer Isidoro Yescas, the subject began to gain ground in the same newspaper, fill the pages of other local and national newspapers, to become a matter of public interest.
The press revealed the opacity of the IEE
In an article entitled "IEE: simulation and opacity", published in two parts 4 and 5 May, IISUABJO investigator and former director of elections in Oaxaca State Electoral Institute, wrote:
"For services where you are putting not only the proper exercise of public resources allocated to the electoral body, but the ethical, moral and professionalism of the winners, and the credibility of the electoral body, it is imperative demand accountability right attached to each of the tenders.
"The initial resistance to report their own results and the partiality of information now pouring in the transparency of the IEE website at least it generates is suspected," she complained.
In response, on May 6 the President of the IEE bought the main headlines of all newspapers to clarify that local bids were "legal and transparent", as stated in the Director General.
was in this context that on 10 May, surprisingly, the Minister President José Luis Echeverría Morales convened a special session of the General Council of the IEE for Perez Othoniel Montor render a report on the bids, it was severely compromised by Representatives of the PAN and the PC.
At the same meeting, Echeverría Morales objected to the appearance of Internal Controller, Juan Ruiz Aquino, to explain how they are carried out each of the tenders and, likewise, refused to provide information on the homes of the winners. President Chief Denies
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contract, however, a new session of the General Council of the IEE, on Sunday 16 May, the issue of tenders was again approached by the directors and representatives of political parties. After a prickly discussion, would take the agreement that the full Board would serve as the permanent committee "to monitor the bidding," and the activities of the four companies to whom the General Board had awarded contracts totaling 80 million pesos.
However, Echeverría Morales again refused to show and deliver copies of contracts signed between enterprises IEE Verification and Monitoring Lithoformas, Proisi and Design Group, Rebuilding and Communication. This practically nullified the integration of the standing committee, as the legal basis to follow up on each of the commitments signed by the said companies are or should be included in the contracts. Long list of
irregularities IEE
The scandal led to tenders and award of contracts by the General Executive Board of the IEE, was really just one more chapter in the long list of irregularities that had incurred the national election since the beginning of the process in November 2009.
At that time the first negative signal from the President Echeverría Morales was its resistance to standard and update the list of the names. Reluctant to do so since the initial project was to use the pattern of federal elections of 2009, the IEE eventually sign with the Federal Register of Electors a convention rather bounded in scope, after Echeverría Morales was terminated by the PRD representative Wilfredo Vasquez, Congressional seats in the local.
Later, in February 2010, the State Electoral Tribunal ordered to revoke the appointment of officers and directors of the 25 electoral districts According to the General Council of the IEE had taken December 26, 2009, without following the statutory procedure set out in the CIPPEO, which prompted the filing of an appeal before the TEE by Victor Alejo Torres, representative of the Convergence Party .
The General Council of the IEE complied with the resolution, but only to fill the forms and ratify the directors appointed in December and had already been agreed by Echeverria Morales with representatives of the PRI, PAN and PRD.
However, nothing could put more into question the impartiality and credibility of the electoral body that the decision taken by the General Council of the IEE to serve on district councils the polling stations with citizens and officials had already participated in local elections in 2007 and 2009 federal and, according to unofficial sources, most were already controlled by the PRI.
Judiciary of the Federation rules against IEE
The agreement, ratified by the State Electoral Tribunal would be reversed by the Court of the Judiciary of the Federation to consider that questioned the principle of certainty, that empowers CIPPEO electoral body to use a different mechanism to set the standard, ie the balloting, only in exceptional cases, which are not justified in this case. Under these conditions the
TPJF ordered the General Council of the IEE replace the procedure, all of which resulted in the balloting of citizens, to their training by the IEE and the integration, again, the polling stations, a task that many inconsistencies and difficulties staff continues to develop the electoral body.
In this way the referee of the contest is far from impartiality, professionalism and transparency, which demands a process of vital importance such as electing the governor, the state members of Congress and mayors.
