Four days from second debate between candidates for the presidency of the Republic, The production of the forum is 90 percent complete, reported Erwin Neumaier, general director of Estudios Churubusco, headquarters of this meeting, during a tour that gave Guadalupe Taddeipresident advisor of the National Electoral Institute (INE).
“We are at 90 percent, it is practically ready. The screen is of the latest generation to do virtual production, so the technical issue was very tested because there was a series that spent six months using it, so it is very very tested, and the people who manage the production of the event have also been in communication with us. We think it is going to be very spectacular,” he told the media during the tour.
There are 80 employees working on preparing the forum.
Given the criticism that the institute received for the production failures in the first presidential debate, Like the failures in the clock, President Guadalupe Taddei Zavala assured that there can be no errors on this occasion.
“The failures that may have occurred correspond to the technical part, not to the will of the institute… We are planning our path towards non-mistakes and non-existence of errors, it would be disastrous to accept from the outset that there may be errors.”
Although Xóchitl Gálvez, candidate of PAN, PRI and PRD, She complained that four counselors were present in the first debate, and the head of the INE was in front of her and – she accused – distracted her. The presiding counselor warned that she hopes to enter again, and she would like the other 10 INE counselors to be present. within the debate.
“I hope that all the counselors are on set, this scenario has the conditions, and perhaps someone to define the candidacies. “That is being reviewed, there is no rigid position on the part of any of the parties.”
The counselor was asked if she would invite the presidential candidates to take advantage of the rehearsal opportunity, which the institute will give the day before the meeting.
“It is up to your personal decisions how you carry out your preparatory actions for the debate, here we are gladly waiting for the three of you so that we can have this exercise again that it suits us all”.
The INE also held the draw for select 75 questions out of 400 that was recorded by institute staff, in all 32 states and abroad, for the second debate, which were delivered to the moderators Adriana Pérez Cañedo and Alejandro Cacho.
The moderators will choose eight questions for the debate.
Previously, on the tour, Taddei Zavala assured that the INE guarantees impartiality in this selection of questions, before the criticisms issued by both President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and some political parties.
“The responsibility of the institution is to give peace of mind to the representatives of the candidates and to allow them to directly observe what the process is like. There is no manipulation by the institute of any question. The peace of mind that the institute gives is precisely this transparency in the selection of the candidates.” questions.
“We defend the possibility of the institute presenting to the population a format of debates significant that allows us to inform ourselves,” he added.
