In addition, it indicates that in the event that the complainant has been terminated from his duties, “the precautionary measure will have early protection.” In other words, the effect of him will be that he be provisionally restored to the enjoyment of his rights and prerogatives of his order, as well as for him to continue exercising his functions as executive secretary of the INE.
Constitutionalist Francisco Burgoa celebrated the decision. Through social networks, he highlighted that with this decision, it is made clear that “Plan B” of the electoral reform is unconstitutional.
“Yesterday it was provisional (by a Collegiate Court) and a moment ago, the Federal Judge who knows the protection of Edmundo Jacobo, has just granted him the definitive suspension so that he can be reinstated in his position as Executive Secretary of the INE. The message: Plan B is unconstitutional”, the UNAM Law professor tweeted.
On March 3, with the rejection of councilors and the opposition bloc for the federal government’s interference with the autonomy of the National Electoral Institute, the General Council appointed Roberto Heycher Cardiel Soto as head of the office of the Secretariat and took the oath of law Executive, replacing Edmundo Jacobo Molina.
Jacobo Molina was immediately dismissed, after the publication and entry into force of the second package of the so-called “Plan B” of the electoral reform of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
While politicians related to the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador have supported the removal of Edmundo Jacobo Molina from his position as executive secretary of the National Electoral Institute (INE) due to the electoral changes, opposition councilors and politicians have criticized the fact derived from the publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) of the second park of the so-called ‘Plan B’ of the electoral reform.
The Mexican president has denied that his electoral reform, known as “Plan B” and which came into force on Friday, affects democracy and the elections despite growing alerts from specialists in Mexico and abroad.
“Everything is a pretext for the corrupt conservatives to confront the government because there is no affectation to the electoral processes, much less to democracy, on the contrary,” said the president in his daily press conference.
The president defends his “Plan B”, as the new package of legal reforms he proposed after the failure of his constitutional initiative last year to replace the National Electoral Institute (INE), the autonomous body that organizes elections, is called.
The electoral reform, the constitutionality of which will now be analyzed by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), aroused last month questions from the US Department of State and US congressmen.
-With information from EFE.
