PRI and Morena revive alliance and seek to limit the powers of the TEPJF in the legislative life

The initiative with draft decision by which subparagraph h) is added to number 1, section 10, of the General Act of the System of Challenges in Electoral Affairs, aims to exclude from the protection of political electoral rights and from the investigation by the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federationthe parliamentary acts of the Congress of the Union relating to its internal regime.

In other words, when it is intended to challenge any parliamentary action of the Congress of the Union, its Permanent Commission or any of its Chambers, issued by its governing bodies, such as those concerning the integration, organization and internal functioning of its legislature bodies and commissions, the TEPJF will have no jurisdiction.

This initiative comes after the TEPJF in recent days ordered the Political Coordination Council to integrate representatives of the Civic Movement into the Multiple Group and into the subsequent integrations of the Permanent Commission.

“It is about ensuring that the exercise of electoral jurisdiction remains respectful of the principle of division of powers and the constitutional system of means to challenge electoral matters,” reflects the initiative signed by Morena, PRI and PT.

In the argument of the proposal, the President of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutierrez Luna, considers that respect for the principle of the division of powers is realized in a constitutional and legal regime of spaces of judicial respect and even free from scrutiny, review, veto or sanction by other organs of state, when the regulations so provide for . legal constitutional.

In the case of the Legislature, he said, there are several acts of the Congress of the Union, the Standing Committee or each of its chambers, which are excluded from the set of constitutional controls and balances.

MC criticizes PRIMOR

The parliamentary group Civil movement in the Chamber of Deputies accused the “PRIMOR” initiative of seeking to exclude the TEPJF from the investigation of parliamentary acts and to limit its powers to the existence of mechanisms for the protection of electoral political rights in parliamentary acts occurs, which is “absurd and shameful”.

“With this measure, Donkerkop and PRI seeks to close the door to the Court to review interparliamentary decisions and eliminate any instrument for the protection of fundamental rights in the representative bodies, as happened with the exclusion of Movimiento Ciudadano in the Permanent Commission and that the its inclusion was ordered to guarantee plurality and representativeness of all parliamentary groups ”, MC explained.

In turn, the coordinator of this parliamentary group, Jorge Alvarez Maynezdenounced that the initiative “is a lawful waste, as it is an inviolable ruling of the Court, it is absurd that the PRIMOR wants to turn it into a Law days later, when what is to be done the opposite is: equal inclusion ”.