The presidents of the National Electoral Institute (OTHER) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Branch (TEPJF), Lorenzo Córdova and Reyes Rodríguez, respectively, stated that reelection in Mexico has imposed challenges for the electoral authorities, since the Reglamentary rule in this matter.
Within the framework of Guadalajara International Book Fair, Lorenzo Córdova Vianello recalled that on March 18, 2020, at the dawn of the 2021 electoral process, the Chamber of Deputies approved a regulatory bill, but that initiative did not pass through the Senate of the Republic. “In short, there is no law,” he said.
He stressed that the OTHER it had to approve guidelines on the matter in order to organize and guarantee the right of municipal presidents and federal and local legislators to compete for consecutive reelection.
There are times that in the INE we are accused of invading spheres of the Legislative. Well, if it were fulfilled, each one, with the deadlines that have been given in the Constitution itself, perhaps this would not happen. That is not an exercise, without a doubt, desirable, but the certainty of the electoral processes becomes necessary, “he said.
In this context, Córdova said that a couple of months ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights pointed out that indefinite reelection in some Latin American countries is contrary to the Democratic Charter and therefore, its prohibition does not violate the political rights of citizens, the right to be elected, but on the contrary, “limited reelection constitutes a guarantee of democratic survival ”.
The magistrate Reyes Rodriguez said that for application in the electoral process 2020-2021, the figure of consecutive reelection imposed great challenges on the electoral authorities, from having rules to solving the conflict over them, without a law on the matter.
He indicated that 65% of federal deputies who sought the position for the second time, achieved their objective, the same as 25% of local congressmen. He made it clear that reelection is not absolute and it is necessary to analyze it within the framework of other constitutional rights.
For her part, the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Norma Lucia Piña Hernández, said that the figure of re-election it should be considered “positively from another angle, from another time, with renewed hope in strengthening the democratic values of Mexico.”
“To understand the scope and limits of Mexican reelection, it is essential to go back to the past, in order to understand how reelectionist prejudice is formed, based on the authoritarian temptation of a reelected President and how that prejudice later reached the consecutive election of legislators, municipal presidents and governors ”, he mentioned.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx