Mexico City.– If he wishes, Alejandro “Alito” Moreno can add 13 years at the head of the PRI.
By majority vote, the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court endorsed the re-election of the PRI leader, Alejandro “Alito” Moreno, for at least four years.
Despite the electoral results of last June 2, in which the PRI obtained its worst historical result, with just 11 percent of the national vote, the leadership convened a National Assembly of the party to review basic documents and endorse the re-election from “Alito”. Despite the claims of former PRI leaders, who called for a refoundation of the party, the Electoral Court validated the statutory changes.
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.
Judge Otálora 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 in 2028 they decide to repeat for another period, they will be able to do so. That is, they would have been in office from 2019 to 2032. “This reform is in accordance with the law since neither the Political Constitution nor the General Law of Political Parties prohibits the figure of re-election, so whether or not to incorporate This figure in the statute of a political party is within 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 we would already be facing a different situation. In addition, this Chamber has validated partisan statutes that contemplate the possibility of running successively in its leadership up to two times,” Soto justified. Otálora defended her project, considering that the PRI not only violated the norm by approving reforms during an electoral process , but also applied them before the INE endorsed them. 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 underway, since in Veracruz and Durango 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. Reyes acknowledged that the parties have periods. very limited to modify their basic documents, since every year there are local processes. 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.
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