▲ MC deputies attended the SCJN yesterday, led by its coordinator, Jorge Álvarez (center, showing the document).Photo Cristina Rodriguez
Eduardo Murillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday March 16, 2023, p. 9
Deputies of the Citizen Movement (MC) presented before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) a amicus curiae (document with legal arguments), to support his challenge against the plan B of electoral reform. In addition, they confirmed that the highest court has not yet admitted for processing the unconstitutionality action that they presented for this issue last week.
The coordinator of the deputies of that party, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, affirmed that civil associations will join this effort to ask the SCJN to declare unconstitutional the changes that seek to cut the budget and adjust the structure of the National Electoral Institute (INE), measures which, he maintained, injure his autonomy.
“That is why this reform is unconstitutional, and today we resort to these resources that we have and that the citizens also have, the citizens, who have been exercising collectives, feminist organizations and for diversity that they will exercise soon.
Here we are presenting this resource again, orange being the first group to do so. We are going to defend to the last consequences the democratic advances, the democratic conquests in Mexico and fight so that we have more democracy and not less in this country
he asserted.
Among those who attended to deliver the document was the deputy and former PRD member Amalia García Medina, who expressed that the plan B seeks to change the democratic system, with limits to the independent and autonomous institutions in charge of organizing the elections.
And that is why it is unfortunate, very worrying, very serious, that in this electoral counter-reform there is an attempt to reduce the capacities of the INE, which gives us Mexicans peace. When there is no certainty, when reliability is violated, the peace of the nation is put at risk
held.
He added that it is necessary for the body that organizes the elections to guarantee its integrity and professionalism.
