The TEPJF exonerates AMLO of political gender violence against Xóchitl Gálvez

From the Editorial

La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, January 4, 2025, p. 4

The specialized chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) concluded that former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not incur gender political violence against Xóchitl Gálvez by issuing various expressions in the mornings.

The former presidential candidate of PAN, PRI and PRD went to that court to denounce that her career was violated during López Obrador’s press conferences on July 3, 5, 10, 11 and 14, as well as those on July 3, 7 and August 18, 2023.

The magistrates considered that there was no violence, since what was expressed by the former Executive was not intended to refer to the complainant,” but rather it was criticism of the process of selecting the presidential candidacy of the political group that supported her.

In the presentation by Judge Luis Espíndola it is pointed out that López Obrador said that Gálvez She obtained a candidacy by decision of a group of people with political power who appointed her to use her image as a woman of the people and who thereby intended to cause sympathy in the electorate.. Those demonstrations They were a criticism of said appointment process, not personal or gender references of the complainant.he explains.

Judge Mónica Lozano differed, considering that there were stereotypical phrases from the former president against Gálvez, but the majority chose to support Espíndola’s presentation.

The TEPJF issued a statement detailing that “in compliance with what was ordered by the higher chamber in SUP-REP-671/2024, the specialized chamber determined that the statements made in reference to a presidential candidacy selection process They were framed in the free debate of ideas, not based on her status as a woman, without representing an obstacle for the complainant to exercise her political rights as a public official or candidate for a candidacy..