▲ The president of the INE after meeting with deputies in San Lázaro.Photo The Day
Fabiola Martínez and César Arellano
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 29, 2024, p. 7
The advisors of the National Electoral Institute (INE) have not incurred contempt, said the president of the organization, Guadalupe Taddei, after a federal judge ordered the identification and appointments of the 11 INE advisors to be sent to the Tax Administration Service (SAT). , in order to generate the way to impose a fine of 54 thousand 285 pesos on each one.
The sanction, according to the head of the second district court residing in Colima, Francisco García Contreras, is because the councilors were in contempt of the suspensions granted towards the judicial reform and, therefore, against the election of ministers, magistrates and judges, whose organization is in charge of the electoral referee.
In this regard, Taddei made it clear that they are not willing to pay the fine. No, (because) we were never in contempt. We understand that our way is the right one
he pointed out.
The counselor’s argument refers to the fact that although in September they declared the beginning of the electoral process, the start of the election of judges was interrupted out of caution in the face of the growing number of requests for suspension of the judicial reform.
The highest instance of the INE is the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation, whose upper chamber determined a few days ago that nothing can stop the organization of the extraordinary elections because it is a constitutional mandate. Given this, almost two months after the flag was given, the INE reactivated the work.
Taddei explained that in addition to the Electoral Court’s resolution, the institute has a long list of resources, including the petition to the Supreme Court to lift the suspensions.
If that does not proceed –he added– then come the other moments of the chain
which is the appeal, the amparo, the procedure before the SAT, the request for annulment of that process and what results with the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Electoral Crimes.
Yesterday, García Contreras – who imposed the fine – reported that the decentralized sub-administrator of collection, assigned to the Decentralized Collection Administration of Federal District 1, requested the names, RFC, addresses of the directors, as well as the official letter of sanction imposed, to be able to collect the fine. He gave the counselors a period of three days to make the payment, otherwise a penalty of 5,428 pesos would be added.
