Mexico City.- By majority, the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court endorsed the re-election of the PRI leader, Alejandro Moreno, for up to eight years.
Judges Mónica Soto, Felipe Fuentes and Felipe de la Mata did not support the proposal of their colleague Janine Otálora to confirm the INE’s resolution not to endorse the reform of the tricolor statutes, which allows the PRI to extend his mandate.
The Magistrate was only supported by Reyes Rodríguez. Three of the five electoral judges considered that the PRI had the right to modify its basic documents within the electoral process, since the crucial stages had already been exhausted, and, in order not to waste time, they approved the internal reforms in the same session, in instead of ordering the INE to do so. They argued that there are precedents for reforms to the statutes of other parties before concluding the electoral process, without violating the norm.
“Contrary to what the responsible authority maintains, it was appropriate for the party to carry out the acts related to the modification of its basic documents before concluding the federal electoral process, and without this contravening the principles protected by the norm,” argued Felipe Fuentes.
When entering into the content of the reforms approved by the PRI Assembly on July 7, Fuentes and Soto defended the reelection of national leaders for three consecutive four-year terms, and of state and municipal leaders for three years up to two terms. On August 11, Alejandro Moreno and Carolina Viggiano were re-elected as president and general secretary for four years, but if they decide to repeat in 2028, they will be able to do so. “This reform is in accordance with the law, since neither in the Political Constitution nor in the General Law of Political Parties is the figure of reelection prohibited, so whether or not to incorporate this figure in the statute of a political party is in the scope of self-determination and self-organization of the political institute itself. “Especially since it does not contemplate a re-election that would be indefinite, where, well, we would already be facing a different situation. In addition, this Chamber has validated party statutes that contemplate the possibility of running for leadership up to two times,” Soto justified. Otálora defended her project, considering that the law is clear in prohibiting parties from modifying their documents within of the electoral process, and the exceptions that the Court has resolved do not apply to the PRI. Reyes and Otálora rejected the Chamber’s approval of the reforms instead of sending them to the INE, since, they considered, there was no urgency, since there are no partisan electoral processes in progress. , since in Veracruz and Durango it begins in November. The former even complained to his colleagues why two months ago when he proposed setting a deadline to validate or not the PRI statutes, they did not accept, and now they were in a hurry. Parties have very limited periods to modify their basic documents, since there are local processes every year. Therefore, he suggested evaluating whether this prohibition could only be for federal processes. “We must assess whether or not the development of local electoral processes can be an insurmountable obstacle for national political parties to validly modify their basic documents,” added Reyes.
#TEPJF #endorses #reelection #Alito #PRI