2023-2024 Presidential Debate Moderators: Javier Solorzano, Luisa Cantu, and Elena Arcila

2024-04-17 00:02:49

Mexico City. / 04/16/2024 16:22:00

The Temporary Debates Commission of the National Electoral Institute (INE) profiled the journalists Javier Solórzano, Luisa Cantú and Elena Arcila as moderators for the third presidential debate of the 2023-2024 electoral process.

The proposal was approved unanimously at the Temporary Debates Commission and will have to be submitted to the General Council in a session next Thursday, April 18.

It will be the first time that a debate has three moderators, because each of them will represent each of the three regions into which the country was divided: north, center and south.

“The agreement was made in the General Council that the moderators must come from the three regions into which the country was divided,” explained counselor Carla Humphrey.

Despite the fact that the proposal was endorsed in previous meetings at the tables of advisors and candidate representatives, the PRI representative before the Commission, Iván Quirarte, asked to replace Arcila with the journalist Mario Campos.

“We consider it appropriate to request that the communicator Elena Arcila be considered, since we consider that her profile is vast and she has the necessary and suitable elements to be the moderator of the Yucatan area, so to speak, given the background that it has in that area, we consider it appropriate that Mario Campos can be considered as that person who takes the role of moderator of that area, since he meets the area requirement and has a greater profile and presence at the national level,” explained the representative of the PRI.

In response, counselor Carla Humphrey, president of the Temporary Debates Commission, rejected the approach and explained that the decision was already made after analyzing several proposals and having various debates, between the representatives of the three candidates and the electoral counselors, on Who should be the moderators?

“It is a decision that the electoral councilors value and weigh for several hours,” said the counselor.

In addition, Quirarte asked to know which profiles were left out during the deliberation, but Humphrey said that the agreement was to keep that information confidential.

Who will be the journalists proposed to moderate the third presidential debate?

The argument for choosing the three journalists is that moderators were required to represent the center, north and south of the country.

Javier Solorzano

Born in Mexico City, Javier Solórzano is a journalist who graduated from the Ibeoamerican University.

He has studies in Political and Social Sciences. He was a founding professor and researcher at the Xochimilco Metropolitan Autonomous University.

Until 2020, Solórzano was headline of the nightly news Once Noticias of Canal Once. His pen has written letters in newspapers such as El Financiero, Universal, Record and La Razón.

He was host of the radio program News with Javier Solórzano in Radio Trece. Has participated in MVS, Congress Channelas well as on the network in The Network of Educational and Cultural Radio and Television Stations of Mexico.

Currently driving Analysis Table of the Herald TV through open channel and Solórzano in The Radio Herald.

Throughout his career he has obtained the National Journalism Award on two occasions.

In 2002, together with the journalist Carmen Aristegui in the analysis program Red circleof Televisaboth communicators announced the case of pederasty Marcial Maciel. A man with great weight in the Vatican during the times of John Paul II.

It turned out that having raised this issue made Televisa uncomfortable, which chose not to renew the relationship with the communicators, who in turn dissolved their association.

Luisa Cantu

A communicator originally from Monterrey, Luisa Cantú has forged her career in Mexico City.

He was trained at the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism and has had collaborations with media such as Behind the News, Máspormás and Radio Chilango, as well as in Red Harvest and Lateinamerika Nachrichten, internationally.

He is a columnist in news media such as La Capital and Nos Diario, where he addresses political issues.

She is currently a host on channel 14, of the Public Broadcasting System (SPR), and on Radio Chilango. She will be the moderator representing the north of the country.

Elena Arcila

Originally from Mérida, Yucatán, Elena Arcila is the current director of SIPSE Noticias, a television network with relevance in the peninsula. In addition, she is part of the Institute of Social Sciences of Mérida.