Overview
- The Instituto Nacional Electoral approved an expanded radio and television monitoring framework for the 2026–2027 federal process to track how precandidates and candidates are treated in the media.
- The monitoring catalog grows from 73 spaces in the precampaign stage to 503 in the campaign stage and uses 14 variables, one more than the 2023–24 cycle, to improve national and local representativeness.
- A new variable will codify “indirect discursive mechanisms” that can disqualify or demean aspirants, and the methodology applies an intersectional lens to record gendered and other differential impacts.
- A separate proposal to compile media-reported allegations about possible links between future candidates and organized crime was rejected by a 6-vote margin, with only Martín Faz, Arturo Castillo and Rita Bell López Vences in favor.
- Councilors framed the outcome as protecting editorial independence while leaving open tensions over how monitored reports could feed the new Commission of Verification of Integrity of Candidacies and inform party or oversight actions.