INE officials still make more than the President

Around a hundred state officials from Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) have gained temporary or definitive provisions for ‘amparo’ appeals against the Federal Remunerations Law , which means that they will temporarily maintain their income from 2018. All of their salaries exceed that of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador .

Some of the state workers who sought the legal remedy are advisers Claudia Zavala, Jaime Rivera, and Adriana Favela , chairman advisers Lorenzo Córdova, Benito Nacif, and more than 15 executive directors and heads of technical units within the General Executive Board (JGE) at the federal institute.

According to INE sources, most of all 130 state officials who earned more than MXN$108,305 a month (what the President makes) as of last year filed for ‘amparo’ appeals.

The INE will now pay different wages, following warrants issued by judges in each case. The salary reductions at the institute began last month, when the ‘amparo’ waivers for the staff expired.

These waivers allowed state officials to maintain their 2018 salaries.

Electoral advisers were regularly paid MXN$262,634 and $178,324 a month

, some of whom will maintain their salary this year.

Consulted separately, advisers who filed for ‘amparo’ appeals claimed that they did not mean to defend their income, but the INE’s faculties as an autonomous body, which included the liberty of determining their salary payments, as was approved by the General Council in late 2018, when the government body agreed to bring salaries down 19.6%.

Government officials file numerous appeals against wage cuts in Mexico

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