Sheinbaum decree restructuring Talleres Gráficos de México, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico): President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced that next week she will present a decree to restructure Talleres Gráficos de México (TGM), modernize its machinery and modify its governance. The stated aim is to strengthen public production of electoral materials ahead of the 2027 elections.
The proposal would expand the membership of TGM’s Board of Directors and bring the Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) in as an observer. It would also add representatives from academic institutions, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Speaking at her morning press conference on Thursday, November 5, Sheinbaum said the changes seek to improve oversight and transparency mechanisms in contracting, as well as increase the public company’s capacity to manufacture electoral documentation. Currently, TGM’s Board of Directors includes representatives of the Secretariats of the Interior, Finance and Public Credit, and Anticorruption and Good Government.
Under the new framework, the federal government intends to broaden institutional and academic participation in the company’s decisions, while the ASF would have a presence as an observer to help monitor its processes. The initiative also contemplates modernizing equipment at its facilities, some of whose machines require updating, to strengthen printing and production capacity for materials used during election days.
The president said the intention is for most electoral documentation to be manufactured directly by this state-owned company. Sheinbaum noted that not all supplies used in elections require the same level of security, and therefore proposed keeping public production of the most sensitive materials while allowing Mexican companies to take part in making other products.
Among items that could be contracted from private suppliers, she mentioned ballot boxes and voting booth partitions, which can be made through various national companies. “There should be 20, 30, 40 companies in Mexico that can do it and, hopefully, the INE, which now depends on them, can have clear contracting guidelines, a price range for each thing contracted, and contract directly with the manufacturing companies,” she explained.
The proposal also seeks to establish clear contracting criteria and price ranges to avoid intermediaries and favor the direct acquisition of materials from manufacturers.
