Avalanche of suspensions will delay TEPJF ruling

Fabiola Martinez

La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, October 20, 2024, p. 3

The electoral authorities continue to receive notifications of suspensions of the reform of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF), which will delay the ruling of the upper chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) regarding the appeals filed.

Until yesterday, the National Electoral Institute (INE) had been notified of more than 160 suspensions, to which were added 115 new notifications on the same files, including incidents and extensions of the cases.

In turn, TEPJF sources anticipated that in its next resolution, it will ratify precisely that the Constitution gives the decisions of the upper chamber of this court a character of superiority in electoral matters, an area where protections are not admitted.

Consequently, permission would be given to the INE to begin the organization of the process for the election of judges through popular vote, as ordered by the constitutional reform, the modifications to two secondary laws (General of Electoral Institutions and Procedures and the Law of Media of Challenge).

However, from now on, Norma de la Cruz, counselor of the INE and member of the temporary commission in charge of organizing the extraordinary process to elect more than 800 PJF positions, including ministers, magistrates and judges, warned that the legislator left the INE the responsibility to harmonize the electoral geography with the judicial geography and did not resolve other types of omissions. That’s something the law had to give us.he lamented.

In addition, he said, there are other areas contestable; For example, in the changes to the secondary laws, the vote of Mexicans abroad was left out, which in ordinary elections is already a matter validated by three channels: postal, Internet and in person at consulates.

“In one of the transitional statements it says that the INE will be able to address this issue on a pilot basis, almost like chocolate, using electronic means, but with non-binding effects, and that is contradictory, because the law of Mexicans abroad is already recognized. There you have another element that can be attributed to the mere call,” he commented to the press.

At a time when the INE maintains pause the formal organization of this election, and has not installed the same temporary commission that will have to coordinate with the Legislative and Judicial powers, in their preliminary analysis, the councilors fear that the regulatory framework will put them in dilemmas to guarantee that all citizens participate.

Also contradictory, De la Cruz added, is the way the ballot is marked; The decree indicates that the names of the chosen candidates must be written, and even specify the authority that proposed them, which would be discriminatory due to the large number of people who do not know how to write or whose handwriting is not legible for various reasons.

Everything in that call can be contestedhe concluded.

Another example is that there will be three evaluation committees that will have their rules, They will give us until next February 12 the list of candidates, but then they say that the INE must guarantee parity and even more so, qualify the election, which is not within its powers.