From the editorial staff
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 8, 2024, p. 7
The National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) assured that it will fight in all legal fields, national and international
the resolution of the specialized regional chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF), in which he is accused of having violated the principles of impartiality, neutrality and equity in the electoral contest, as well as of disseminating government propaganda during a prohibited period, due to the publication of two reports on political violence last March.
In a statement, the CNDH described the sentence, which was notified to it last Friday, as crude and rigged
which threatens the exercise of human rights, and their defense
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He pointed out that the ruling of the magistrates of said chamber –originated from a complaint by the PAN–, It highlights the way in which justice, and also democracy, has been exercised in this country.
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It is, he explained, of a crude attack that not only confirms the slogan that exists, since its beginning, against the current administration of the CNDH, but also exposes the omissions and overlaps in which some elements of the electoral bodies incurred in the last election, their annoyance because the CNDH exposed and denounced facts that compromised the development of the campaigns, and underlines the urgency for the Judicial Branch and the electoral apparatus itself to transform themselves, and act in accordance with the principles of human rights, respecting the Constitution.
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Last May, the TEPJF’s upper chamber also ruled to declare invalid the mechanism for monitoring electoral campaigns that the commission intended to carry out and ordered it to remove the first report on political violence from its official website, since it is not its responsibility to prepare such documents.
In the position released yesterday by the CNDH, chaired by Rosario Piedra Ibarra, it again denied that the publication of the aforementioned reports had the objective of intervening in the electoral process and Much less generate a trend for or against a particular contender.
for the Presidency of the Republic.
He clarified that we only speak out and make visible the multiple acts as violations of human rights. that they were putting the election result at risk, and there is no expression in said documents in favor of one or the other political party.
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Regarding its powers, the CNDH pointed out that it has a constitutional mandate to protect human rights in all contexts, including electoral ones. There is no pause in its functions during election periods, as the TEPJF falsely claims
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