Mexico’s electoral institute investigates Eduardo Verástegui for illicit financing

The General Council of National Electoral Institute (INE) of Mexico agreed this Monday to investigate the actor Eduardo Verasteguia former candidate for an independent presidential candidacy, for allegedly having received around 390 thousand dollars from abroad to finance his collection of citizen signatures.

The electoral body reported that the ultra-conservative Verástegui, who did not gather the necessary signatures to launch his presidential candidacy as an independent candidate, would have received around 6.9 million pesos (390 thousand dollars) from the company. Partner 305Based in Miami, U.S.

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These resources, he noted, would have been triangulated to finance his political activism.

“It appears that this is financing from a foreign company for the U.S candidate Verástegui, who managed to make a transfer of 50,000 dollars to the civil association in Mexico that he founded to manage the resources used”said the counselor Martin Faz in the session.

According to Faz, this transfer was made last December, but in October a similar situation occurred, where the same company transferred US$450,000 to Verástegui, who in turn would have sent US$340,000 to his civil association.Mexico’s Restorative Political Movement‘.

“In none of the cases did the candidate have sufficient initial funds to make the transfers that were allocated to his campaign in search of support.”, emphasized the counselor.

He also said that, according to the socioeconomic capacity that the actor and producer declared to the INEVerástegui would have to contribute more than a year of his income for the money to be transferred to the association.

At the beginning of January, INE announced that Verástegui had not collected the necessary signatures to have an independent candidacy for the June 2024 presidential elections.

According to electoral legislation, candidates had to collect at least 960,000 signatures to get their candidacy, but Verástegui reported around 165,000.

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Verástegui has been involved in politics for several years and has positioned himself on the extreme right, he is the current leader of the Catholic movement Long live Mexicoand has been related to ultraconservative parties such as the Spanish Vox and leaders like the American donald trump and the Argentine Javier Milei.

The controversial character appeared in last place in polls leading up to the 2024 presidential elections.

Mexico will hold presidential elections on June 2 to choose a successor to Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), and in which the former head of the Government of Mexico CityThe Official Claudia Sheinbaumleads the polls against his biggest opposition rival, Xochitl Gálvez.

Source: Elcomercio

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