On December 23, the Superior Chamber of the TEPJF resolved that the Chamber should modify four elements contained in the call issued to elect the four directors of the National Electoral Institute (INE) who will take office on April 4.
Unanimously, the Jucopo, which is made up of the leaders of all the parliamentary groups, agreed that they would abide by the ruling at the beginning of the ordinary period that began on February 1, but from the outset they established that the TEPJF “exceeded” with its sentence, because according with Mier it was ordered in what sense the call should be approved, which a power cannot order the legislature.
However, for weeks they debated the alleged presentation of a constitutional controversy, a complaint in the Council of the Judiciary, amparo or other legal channels. So far they have not resorted to them and will choose to look for the president of the SCJN.
Also today, Mier announced that compliance, which will be decided by the plenary, will take place until next week, that is, in the middle of the month.
Two weeks ago, in complete disagreement with the ruling of the TEPJF, they invited the magistrates of the Court to the Chamber to hold a meeting and clarify the ruling, but the plenary session of the Court ruled out going to San Lázaro, the legislative seat, and decided to invite the deputies to the judicial headquarters, which the legislators did not accept.
The outcome, agreed today by Jucopo, was to set up a “work table (to) make a timely review of the powers of the Federal Electoral Tribunal.”
Mier accused the magistrates of “little collaboration with another power”, because instead of accepting a meeting they were summoned to a hearsay hearing, as if they were on trial “that we are not settling, there is already a sentence, it was unassailable. So, that couldn’t be reversed.”
“So, that shows a permanent attitude of harassment that the Court has towards one of the powers and we have to act accordingly,” he warned.
“Now at the table that is going to be set up for review, we are going to go directly to the Superior Chamber to speak with the president of the Judiciary to do the review,” he said.
The coordinator of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Luis Espinosa Cházaro, also pointed out that the message to the magistrates “was an invitation, not a summons, and they respond to us as if we were going to make a hearing statement.”
“We will not attend, we have already decided it in the Political Coordination Board, and we are going to respond within the framework of setting up a legal table, asking the Court for its opinion, and responding in accordance with the law, what the Court has sent,” Espinosa said.
Despite the tone of both deputies, the PRD member cut short: “Let’s see, no, it has nothing to do with something bothering us. We, doing politics, unanimously in the Jucopo made an invitation to the magistrates to exchange points of view. In other words, interpret the sentence that they had issued, and they do not respond in a different tone than “if we want, let’s go.”
