Mexico City.- The Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) confirmed the reform to the internal regulations of the INE to prohibit political parties from participating in sessions and activities related to the election of the Judicial Branch.
By majority, the magistrates considered that the prohibition on representations of political parties and the Legislative Branch not being part of the sessions in which they address issues related to the judicial election is in the reform.
“The General Council did properly found and motivate the controversial agreement based on the constitutional reform decree that confers on it the obligation to organize the electoral process to elect various positions of the Federal Judicial Branch,” indicates the resolution of the Superior Chamber. “Nor did it exceed its regulatory power, since it complied with an express constitutional mandate that, on the one hand, empowers it to issue the agreements necessary for the organization of the electoral process, and on the other hand, imposes the restriction of participation of political parties in actions, activities and sessions related to the aforementioned electoral process”.
They also rejected the argument of the PAN and Citizen Movement that the rights of the parties to participate in the sessions in which issues of said election are analyzed would be affected.
They argued that there will be no impact on the sessions of the General Council in which the elections in Durango and Veracruz are discussed, which will be concurrent with the judicial process. “These are hypothetical arguments, without any indication that the contested reform affects the electoral processes linked to the elections for the renewal of the Executive and Legislative powers,” the ruling adds. Judge Reyes Rodríguez assured that the PAN and MC had no legal interest to challenge, in addition to the fact that the exclusion is clear in the legislation. “It prohibits participating in actions and activities related to this entire elective process. In such a way that if they do not have a voice or vote in the commissions, in any work meeting, in any action, activity, decision, deliberation, for me the Constitution is excluding political parties from any involvement in this matter in this popular election process. “This explicit and intentional exclusion of political parties also has a substantive logic, not just a procedural one, since its background is to generate the conditions of independence, the guarantees they require. the people who participate and are elected in the judicial election,” he added.
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