▲ CONSTITUTIONAL SUPREMACY. Alejandro Moreno, leader of the PRI, went up to the presidium to demand that Fernández Noroña not close the debate on constitutional supremacy. Don’t yell at me!
replied the Morenista, who also demanded that he not touch him. Senators from the cherry tried to separate them and there was pulling and elbowing.Photo Germán Canseco
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Ergio Gutiérrez Luna, president of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies, brought out at the slightest provocation the fashionable instrument in terms of political dejection of the legitimate adversary: a proposal for constitutional reform. A qualified majority in the chambers kills any dissidence, even in autonomous organizations, it would seem to be the bet that can be used in any circumstance.
The context of unsheathing such a political weapon without great caution was that six counselors of the National Electoral Institute were pushing for the Supreme Court to resolve, through a constitutional controversy, a reform added at the last minute and in a deceitful manner to eliminate the historical collegiate nature of the General Council of the INE ( formerly IFE) and leave to the personal will of the person who presides, in this case, Guadalupe Taddei, the appointment of executive directors and heads of technical units, in addition to giving the General Executive Board powers that They would put her above the counselors.
The surprising and obviously not consulted last-minute maneuver to enable the virtual gift with dedication to Taddei, was similar to what happened on April 15, 2021, when the then Green senator, Raúl Bolaños Cacho Cué (now federal deputy and vice coordinator of the bench of the party of the four lies in San Lázaro; Oaxacan close to Alejandro Murat), deceitfully inserted a lightning proposal in a transitory article (it took him 90 seconds to read it) so that Arturo Zaldívar, president of the Court, could remain in office for two more years, without election and in contravention of the Constitution (Zaldívar took months to say no, until the scandalous claim of continuity was unsustainable illegal. Details in previous installment of this column: Zaldívar, revolving door; https://goo.su/qa8qfg).
In the end, six of the 11 councilors of the INE decided to present the constitutional controversy before the Court, which is a setback for President Taddei, who did not hide her annoyance and invoked a peculiar thesis: to resolve in a collegial manner, between counselors, the insult inflicted from outside, which degrades that characteristic of collegiality.
In this context, Gutiérrez Luna summarized his position in X: A group of INE advisors intends to undermine the will of the Legislative Branch. For this reason, as a federal deputy, I presented an initiative to elevate to constitutional rank that the presidency of the INE can designate heads of the executive and technical bodies of the institute, and thus the work in this body can advance.
. In reality, more than an outburst of supremacist instantaneity, the position of the powerful Veracruz deputy is part of the process that will seek in 2025 to approve a political and electoral reform that includes the election by popular vote of the INE councilors and their operational readjustment.
On the other hand, yesterday the Presidency of the Republic announced its list of members of the committee that will evaluate candidates to participate in the election of judicial positions. Two lawyers who rigorously represent the Amlo-Claudi project: Arturo Zaldívar, former president of the Court, and Javier Quijano, who was defender of the then head of government during the removal of immunity process; a lawyer with notable participation as an opinion member in the media, Vanessa Romero Rocha, and two judicial figures with presence at state levels, Isabel Inés Romero Cruz (Veracruz), and Mary Cruz Cortés Ornelas (Tlaxcala). The other two powers also presented their lists of evaluators, but the profile decided in their case by the National Palace is very indicative.
And, while the federal electoral magistrate Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, with political references to Calderonism, has decided to sacrifice himself for the Homeland and continue two more years in office, although he had boasted that he would leave in protest of the judicial reform, until the next Monday!
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