“The Legislative Branch is unable to grant the requested extension (…) We are convinced that, if the extension were granted, it would create more problems than it intends to solve, since it would imply carrying out a new constitutional reform just to change the date and, this would imply modifying all deadlines of the elective process,” mentioned the Legislative Branch.
He mentioned that if the extension had been granted when the call for the registration of applicants was in place, the process would have been complicated and a campaign of speculation and discredit would have been unleashed.
“Alleging that the postponement of the election was granted due to the failure of the citizens’ response to participate as candidates in this unprecedented, historic and unique electoral process in the world,” he noted.
A week ago, in a letter addressed to the presidents of both chambers of the Congress of the Union, Gerardo Fernández Noroña and Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, the INE advisors asked to take the necessary legislative steps to “determine that the electoral day of the extraordinary elective process of 2025 does not take place on June 1, 2025.”
Last week, the president advisor of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, stated that if Congress did not approve the postponement of the judicial election in 2025, “yes or yes” they will hold the elections.
“We cannot make a ‘here it goes’ request to Congress, I think it would be very irresponsible on the part of the National Electoral Institute, we did not act that way, we did it aware that the attribution, of the granting or not, is on the part of the lower and upper chambers of the Legislative Power, and that we are in a position to do the same,” he noted.
“We are aware that if this is not approved, the Institute has to leave no matter what,” he added.
Seven months before the scheduled date for the first election of members of the Judiciary, June 1, the National Electoral Institute (INE) asked to postpone it for 90 days, so that it could be held until after August 2025.
In a letter sent on Wednesday to the Chambers of Deputies and the Senate, the office manager of the Executive Secretariat of the INE, Claudia Suárez, made the request and listed the tasks that must be carried out for this process.
