While the IFE undoubtedly committed several serious public-relations mistakes during last year’s election, it remains one of Mexico’s most respected institutions, with credibility ratings that are regularly double or triple those of Congress and the three political parties. The IFE shepherded Mexico through several crisis in 2006, when the PRD’s presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, refused to accept his razor-thin margin of defeat and took his battle to the streets.
在这样的背景下，驱逐IFE委员的事件就显得更为突出了。尽管IFE的确在去年的选举过程中犯了几个严重的公共关系错误，但它仍然是墨西哥最受尊敬的机构。其公信度评级常常是国会或三个政治党派的两倍或三倍。2006年，当PRD 的总统候选人Andrés Manuel López Obrador 拒绝接受其惜败而走上街头造势时，IFE陪护墨西哥度过了数次危机。