Mexico.- The works of the Judicial Electoral Observatory began today with the participation of national and foreign specialists and academics in the field of political and electoral rights; the main objective being to promote spaces for the analysis and academic discussion of the sentences that impact the democratic life of the country.
In the 10 reflection and debate tables that will take place during the two days of this meeting, topics such as: the appearance of social networks and influencers; the invalidity of the elections and the separation of Church-State; the improper use of social programs and vaccination against Covid-19, as well as parity in candidates and positions of popular election in the governorships of the states. There will also be a debate on affirmative actions and the self-registration of indigenous people, the vote of Mexicans abroad and the control of parliamentary acts in electoral justice.
At the opening of the event, organized by the Electoral Judicial School (EJE), in coordination with the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights (AIDH), the director of the EJE, Gabriela Ruvalcaba García; the director of the AIDH, Irene Spigno; the president counselor of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, and the governor of Coahuila, Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís.
In the first table entitled “Social networks, influencers and their impact on democratic life”, the professor-researcher of the IIJ of the UNAM, María Marván Laborde; the magistrate of the Specialized Regional Chamber (SRE) of the TEPJF, Luis Espíndola Morales, and Óscar Sánchez Muñoz, from the University of Valladolid, Spain, who agreed that the use of socio-digital tools has been abused.
During his participation in the second table “Nullification of elections and separation of Church-State”, moderated by Roselia Bustillo Marín, secretary of study and account of the TEPJF, the researcher of the IIJ-UNAM, José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, remotely, and the President Magistrate of the Electoral Court of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza, Sergio Díaz Rendón, discussed the Tlaquepaque, Jalisco case.
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The theme of the third work table was “The improper use of social programs and vaccination against COVID-19”, where the academician of the IIJ of the UNAM, Jaime Cárdenas Gracia; the AIDH professor, Yessica Esquivel Alonso; the secretary of Study and Account of the SRE, Karen Torres Hernández, and the professor-researcher of the EJE, Alejandra Tello Mendoza, agreed that the electoral laws do not have the scope to prevent bad practices from being incurred to obtain votes.
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