Alma E. Muñoz
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 21, 2024, p. 7
We hope that the National Electoral Institute (INE) act according to the law
in the distribution of plurinominal deputies, said the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum. She asked rule of law, that the Constitution and the law are complied with. That is what we want, that is what they should do.
he stressed.
He stated that the duty of the electoral counselors It has to do with what the Constitution and the Electoral Procedures Law say. There is no room for doubt, it is very clear, it even says the formula that must be applied in detail.
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At a press conference, he stressed that there is no room for interpretation of the law and he hoped that the Electoral Court would act in accordance with the law in due course.
In response to a direct question, he criticized the visit of the PAN leader, Marko Cortés, to the INE to ask the electoral counselors to change the interpretation of the law, in order to avoid the overrepresentation of the 4T movement. “What is he going for? To say: ‘let’s see, National Electoral Institute, violate the law in this case.’”
Sheinbuam insisted that neither in 2018 nor in 2021, the leader blue and white “INE has spoken out about the allocation of plurinominals. Why do they have to do it differently now? What interpretation? (The INE) has to do exactly what the law says,” he said.
Likewise, after almost a week since the Electoral Court approved the ruling regarding the final count of the election for the Presidency of Mexico and having delivered the certificate of majority to Sheinbaum, this document was published in the Official Journal of the Federation.
In yesterday’s evening edition, the ruling that was discussed on Wednesday, August 14, was published. It was unanimously approved by the six magistrates of the Superior Court and represents the last stage of the federal electoral process.
With information from Lilian Hernandez and Fabiola Martinez
