The Senate will give the ruling its first reading on Tuesday, February 21, and on Wednesday, February 22, the plenary session will end the matter, for its publication and entry into force. Then, the 30-day period will begin to run for legal resources to be filed before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).
What was approved includes the package of reforms to the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (Legipe), the General Law of Political Parties (LGPP), the Organic Law of the Judicial Power of the Federation (LOPJF) and the issuance of a new one, the General Law of the Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters (LGMIME).
For almost two hours, the two commissions met and, with the majority of Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party (PVEM), the opinion to the minute was approved, which establishes that article 12 of the the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (Legipe) which includes the controversial “eternal life clause”.
By endorsing the opinion – they warned – it was recognized that the Chamber of Deputies violated article 72 of the Constitution on the legislative procedure, since it should not have modified that article.
The rally for that article consisted in the fact that the plenary session of Deputies included the eternal life clause, sent the draft and in committees the Senate eliminated it. But in the plenary session of the Senate it was included again.
That is to say that the transfer of votes had already been included and endorsed by the deputies and by the Senate, but when returning that minute to the Chamber, it had to be sent to the Executive for its promulgation and it did not do so, but rather eliminated the ” clause”.
“We must kill her, eliminate her, eliminating any possibility of her revival and here they are leaving her alive,” said Senator Damián Zepeda, from Acción Nacional (PAN).
He also questioned that in the minutes the illegality incurred by the Chamber of Deputies was exposed: “With that we are putting the argument on the chest so that whoever is in favor of the transfer of votes challenges and says even the Senate recognizes that (remove it ) was illegal.”
Senator Claudia Ruiz Massieu, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) voted against the “document”, but warned: “With a vote we are validating another violation of the procedure.”
“The Chamber of Deputies made a mistake, the board of directors made another and we are very bad reaffirming a violation of the legislative process,” said the PRI member.
