For some magistrates of the TEPJF I do not exist, Gálvez accuses

Fabiola Martinez

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 10, 2024, p. 6

Five days before the superior chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) qualifies the presidential election, Xóchitl Gálvez accused the magistrates of being submissive in front of the National Palace, give in to the pressure of powerand allow from there operate the process without any blemish for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The former presidential candidate of the opposition coalition made up of PAN, PRI and PRD went to the TEPJF headquarters yesterday to ask for time, so that before the session on Monday and Wednesday, scheduled precisely to end the contest, the conduct of the president can be analyzed.

Honorable judges, it is time to be brave. I do not want my wishes to be fulfilled, I do not want the election to be annulled. I have never asked for that, for ethical reasons I did not do it, but I do want it to be clearly stated what the President’s intervention was. All of Mexico saw it and history will judge.said.

And while the TEPJF was preparing the ground for the election qualification ceremonies, what Gálvez found was a two-hour audience with the presiding magistrate, Mónica Soto, and another one-hour audience with Reyes Rodríguez, although his main interest was to speak with magistrates Felipe de la Mata and Felipe Fuentes, authors of the project that declares the 10 opposition arguments inadmissible and ineffective and rejects the former candidate’s appeal.

For them I no longer existGálvez complained to the press, stating that From those in power they made a mess, they learned the tricks of the old PRI and these days they order the magistrates what to do.

Sources at the TEPJF said that De la Mata and Fuentes had other matters on the agenda that had been previously agreed upon, and that Gálvez asked them for an appointment one day at a time. They also stressed that the special commission had already done its job and issued the draft sentence; that is, they added, the instruction has already been closed.

Before the microphones, the former candidate seemed very upset, and assured that there was indeed damage on the part of President López Obrador, because every time he said something in the morning press conference, people would demand in the street whether he had stolen the money, if it was the card of the mafia of power, or if he intended to cancel social programs.

He then turned against the judges. Some judges have already made the decision to look good at the National Palace. It seems to me that there is a submission to the National Palace. If they had been told that Claudia Sheinbaum was here, they would all go (to the hearing).

And he even assured that the judges are kicking the can down the road with delaying tactics, so that Don’t touch the project you bring with even the petal of a comma.

“Now it turns out that this is the most transparent election in history, almost like in Denmark; will there be no stain on the tiger? Because this is being operated from the National Palace. All these legal tricks of ‘bring back the morning press conferences’, ‘say they have expired’, ‘political violence did not exist’.”