Fabiola Martínez and Lilian Hernández
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 8, 2024, p. 8
The National Electoral Institute (INE) has been notified of 451 requests for protection against the judicial reform. Of this cascade of challenges, 259 have obtained provisional suspensions, 44 outright and three definitive, according to a report from the body.
The issue has been another point of conflict within the INE because while some directors and councilors are committed to issuing a legal act, based on an agreement in the general council and immediately starting with the preparation of the election of judges, others consider that the best way is to ask the Supreme Court to accumulate all the requests for protection and resolve en bloc.
In addition to the previous context, the Executive Secretariat must deliver today to the councilors the constitutional controversy project ordered by a majority of them to annul the reform to the electoral law in the point related to new powers to the presidency of the council for the direct appointment of high officials, without going through the approval of the general council.
The councilors will review it and next Wednesday the document must be completed to proceed to file it with the SCJN, within 30 days after the publication of the changes to the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures. This INE agreement was challenged before the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation by Morena and allies, hence if it were to be revoked in this way, the climate within the INE would become even more strained.
Another point of difference is related to the legal strategy regarding the more than 451 requests for protection, since a Colima judge imposed fines of 54 thousand pesos on each of the directors for allegedly not respecting the suspensions granted.
