Mexico City.- A federal court today confirmed the provisional suspension that orders the National Electoral Institute (INE) to stop all preparations for the extraordinary judicial election, scheduled for June 2025.
In this election, the result of the judicial reform in force since September 16, the replacement by popular vote of all the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice, half of the nearly 1,700 federal judges and magistrates, and the election of members of the new Judicial Disciplinary Court (TDJ).
The Collegiate Court of the Thirty-Second Circuit, based in Colima, today unanimously confirmed the suspension granted on September 24 by the Second District Judge in that entity, Francisco García Contreras. The magistrates did not comment in the public session, declaring an appeal from the Presidency of the Republic unfounded.
“That the General Council of the INE refrains from implementing the Extraordinary Electoral Process 2024-2025, and also does not issue agreements for the organization, development, counting, surveillance and supervision of the extraordinary electoral process of the year 2025,” is one of the effects of the suspension.
The President of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, said on September 26 that they had not yet been notified of this suspension. In an agreement published today, Judge García asked a colleague from Mexico City to collaborate to notify the INE, with a threat of a fine of 10,857 pesos if any official of said body makes any maneuver to not receive the judicial clerk who will deliver the job. The suspension confirmed today also orders the Senate not to issue the call for the election, which must be published no later than October 16, and will contain several relevant dates and pending details of the process. “That the Plenary Session of the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF) refrain from implementing a work plan for the transfer of material, human and financial resources to the TDJ with regard to the functions of discipline and internal control of the members of the PJF”, adds the ruling. According to the judge, the suspension seeks to avoid the destruction of judicial autonomy and independence, the division of Powers and the Republic. During September, the Congress of the Union ignored several suspensions issued by judges who sought to prevent the approval of the Constitutional reform, its sending to the state legislatures, and its publication in the Official Gazette. However, it is not so clear that the INE and the CJF will have the same attitude of contempt, even in the case of protections that in theory are notoriously inadmissible, since it is a reform of the Constitution, which also refers to electoral matters. Contempt of a suspension is a federal crime, but it is up to the FGR to investigate and prosecute it, which could argue that the judges have gone too far with these suspensions, since the authorities cannot be ordered to ignore mandates of the Constitution. It is worth mentioning that the protection from which this suspension derives was not promoted by judicial personnel, but by the Iris Foundation in Defense and Promotion of Human Rights.
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