History
The IFE was formally established on October 11, 1990, as a result of a series of constitutional reforms approved in 1989 and the Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (Cofipe), a law passed in August 1990 and currently in force. The legislative branch of the federal government, the national political parties, and the general citizenry participate in its composition.
Since its creation, the constitutional and legal regulations in this subject matter have experienced further major reforms, which have had an impact on the composition and details of the IFE. The most recent of these reforms, approved in 1996, reinforced the level of independence and autonomy of the IFE by completely dissociating the executive branch from any aspect regarding its membership or functions, and by reserving the vote within all its directive bodies to the councilors, the members that do not have links to any party or to any state power or body.
IFE has legal personnel and assets of its own. Unlike its predecessors in the area of federal elections, it is permanent. Its headquarters are located in the Federal District, and it is organized under a decentralized framework that allows it to exercise its duties throughout the country.
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