Fabiola Martinez
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 1, 2025, p. 17
Although the new judges have been in office since last September, the 11 counselors of the National Electoral Institute (INE) still have some of the fines imposed before the judicial election against them.
Various judges determined that the councilors did not comply with the provisional suspensions related to stopping the organization of this election, held last June.
Even though the INE halted preparations for the election for two months, precisely because of the litigation, some judges focused their sanction on the councilors and imposed personal fines on them.
In the midst of the conflict, the INE resumed work for the elections based on the order it received from the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation, which in turn was then maintaining a dispute with the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) regarding the instance that should order or not the suspension of voting.
According to information collected, only the fine of 107 thousand pesos was withdrawn from a court in Michoacán, but two more are still pending, representing sanctions of approximately 450 thousand pesos for each director.
These sentences are still in force and would be from resolutions of courts in Colima and Jalisco, whose owners considered that the directors were in contempt.
In this regard, counselor Claudia Zavala regretted that the issue is still ongoing. “Those fines were imposed for an alleged failure to comply with the court suspensions; we filed complaint appeals against it and they have not yet been resolved,” he said.
Another adverse circumstance is that the resolutions are not made by a single judge, but by several.
“There is a court that has already eliminated one of the fines and I would hope (that the others) would follow the same path, since there is already a resolution from the SCJN,” he indicated in an interview.
The Supreme Court ordered the judges to review the suspensions and make a ruling within a period of no more than 24 hours; however, there are accumulations in other courts.
“There are almost 500 thousand pesos between the various sanctions,” but first, Zavala added, the complaint resources that we filed must be resolved.
