From the Editorial Office
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, April 14, 2022, p. 3
The Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation received the report from the National Electoral Institute of the total computation and the declaration of results of the revocation process of the mandate of the President of the Republic for the constitutional period 2018-2024. From this notification, the TEPJF is responsible for resolving the means of challenge that are presented to dispute the results of the mandate revocation process.
In accordance with the constitutional provisions and the Federal Law for the Revocation of Mandate, the TEPJF must make the final calculation of the vote in the process. In the event that the constitutional and legal requirements are met, issue the declaration of revocation of mandate.
Although the assumptions were not met for the revocation of the mandate to proceed, that is, that 40 percent of the nominal list of voters has attended the polls, according to the law, the TEPJF is responsible for sending the results of the revocation of the mandate to the incumbent of the federal Executive Power, the Congress of the Union, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and the INE.
In this way, at this stage of the mandate revocation process, the Electoral Court will continue to carry out its constitutional task of protecting the rights to political participation in the aforementioned mechanism of indirect democracy.
