TEPJF plans to “rechannel” resources against PRI statutory reform to the INE

Lilian Hernandez and Jessica Xantomila

The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, July 19, 2024, p. 5

Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, magistrate of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF), outlines to reroute to the National Electoral Institute (INE) the three lawsuits filed by Dulce María Sauri Riancho, Enrique Ochoa Reza and Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, former national leaders of the PRI, against the reforms to the party statutes that were approved in the 24th National Assembly on July 7.

These challenges were coincidental, as all three called for the annulment of the modifications to the PRI statutes, including the possibility of re-election of national leaders.

By asking for the same thing, these three trials were accumulated into a single project that makes up the mother trialsince it is the origin of the entire chain of illegality pointed out by the protesters, which was referred to Judge Reyes Rodríguez, who also has in his report a second draft resolution from the same former PRI presidents, but against the call to change the leadership of that party, which was approved on July 11 by the National Council of the PRI..

Regarding the challenges to the reforms to the statutes, Judge Rodríguez proposes that within a period of 10 calendar days the INE should rule on the prohibition of modifying statutes during the electoral process, to declare its constitutional and legal provenance, before a judicial review.

In order to protect the right of access to justice of the plaintiffs, it is proposed to redirect their claims to the General Council of the INE so that they can be analyzed in conjunction with the administrative review procedure on the constitutional and legal validity of the regulatory modifications.proposes the draft sentence that was circulated to the other judges yesterday.

Judge Rodríguez Mondragón considers it pertinent for the INE to rule on this modification of the statutes and whether it violates the provisions of article 34 of the General Law of Political Parties, since if it is confirmed, It would be unnecessary to analyze the constitutionality and legality of the statutory reforms..