The president of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Santiago Creel Miranda, explained that if some of the reforms that he intends to present as part of “Plan B” for electoral reform by way of amendments to secondary laws violate constitutional rights and against democracy, the fight will be launched in the courts.
“If they want to play with the country’s democracy, then they are going to run into legal resources,” warned the PAN legislator.
“You can make a march to sign the trials and I am sure that there would be thousands and, perhaps, millions of citizen trials if our political rights are diminished, why? Because there can be no legislation that affects our democracy”, added the federal deputy.
Creel Miranda explained that any affectation to political rights can be challenged through Trials for the Protection of Political-Electoral Rights (JDC), since the principle of progressivity that establishes that guarantees cannot have setbacks would be violated.
Another line of actions would be unconstitutionality actions in the event that the so-called “Plan B” materializes.
“If any of the reforms that they are going to propose to seven laws touches a political right, in whatever dimension, it is because free, authentic, democratic elections are not guaranteed as they are conceived in article 41 of the Constitution, ( or affect) other articles on the Chambers of Congress, since it will be the object of an immediate unconstitutionality action ”, he stated.
Also “if funds are taken from the electoral authority and the electoral authority ceases, with this, to fulfill a constitutional function, established in article 41 of the Constitution, that would be something regressive, and also challengeable,” he said.
Therefore, in his opinion, although Morena and his allies can achieve majority votes in both chambers, “unconstitutionality actions will be established immediately or simultaneously”, both by the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) will have to resolve, he noted.
The vice coordinator of National Action (PAN), Jorge Triana Tena, established that the path of mobilization is open, but his party will not be a convener.
If civil society prefers to organize itself without political parties, the PAN members will respect it. “The organizers were organized civil society, if they call us and invite us, we will be there. If they think that the political parties are redundant, we will not be accompanying them, ”he declared.
Deputy Francisco Javier Huacus, from the PRD, established that his party will also wait for the calls to join all kinds of measures to reject a regressive electoral reform.
“We went out to march and we will go out as many times as necessary, given the impositions and authoritarian actions of the tenant of the National Palace,” he noted.
They announced -he said- a “Plan B”, of reforms to secondary laws and if the “strangulation” of the electoral authority is materialized, there will be mobilizations.
“Even if it is about taking to the streets, filing complaints and challenges, and about sentencing, we will not allow measures of this nature,” he stated.
