INE Warns Mexico’s Plan B Could Raise Election Payroll Costs by Up to 1.7 Billion Pesos

Overview

• INE president Guadalupe Taddei sent senators an analysis warning that the Senate-approved Plan B would increase personnel spending as the bill advances to the Chamber of Deputies.
• The document projects as much as 1,700 million pesos in extra payments to workers if the bonus tied to peak election workloads is removed and overtime must be paid instead.
• The institute cites 2,419 million pesos paid in recent election bonuses across the 2022 recall, the 2023–24 federal vote, and the 2025 judicial election as the baseline for its comparison.
• Modeled scenarios show that without the bonus, overtime for the 2025 judicial election could have reached up to 2,714 million pesos, far above the 1,005 million pesos bonus actually paid.
• The bill cuts benefits for electoral officials and caps public pay at the president’s salary, and La Jornada notes it does not expressly repeal the bonus even as the INE analysis, prepared by Taddei without full coordination with other councilors, warns of higher costs under overtime rules.