IFE and IFT hold their first working meeting (Joint Statement 12/2013)
IFE and IFT hold their first working meeting
The Federal Electoral Institute (Instituto Federal Electoral, IFE) and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) carried out a visit to the National Center for Monitoring of the Integrated System for the Administration of State (Centro Nacional de Monitoreo del Sistema Integral para la Administración de los Tiempos del Estado, SIATE) where the operation and procedure that the electoral body follows to perform the schedules the promotional parties, compliance and verification of their transmission by radio and television industry was demonstrated.
This meeting, which is part of the Framework Agreement for Collaboration for Technical Support in the Field of Monitoring of Media, signed by both institutions on November 14th of 2013, the IFT was attended by the Commissioner President, Gabriel Contreras Saldivar, Commissioners María Elena Estavillo and Sofía Labardini, Fernando Borjón, Mario Fromow, Ernesto Estrada and Adolfo Cuevas. IFE attendees were the Acting President Adviser Benito Nacif, Electoral Adviser María Marvan, Marco Antonio Baños and Lorenzo Córdova, as well as Executive Secretary Edmundo Jacobo.
This visit is part of the collaboration that IFE committed with IFT, working together to strengthen their constitutional duties in telecommunications, as well as the use of the resources of the Mexican State, that the electoral body has.
Prior to the visit to SIATE, IFE officials, headed by the Electoral Adviser Lorenzo Cordova, Committee for Radio and Television President, and Commissioner Fernando Borjón, held a meeting to define the working groups and specify their duties to comply with the agreement signed between the two institutions.
IFE and IFT pledged to maintain technical cooperation in the field of monitoring of broadcasting media, the use of equipment, facilities and exchange of information and digital files belonging to the electoral body.
