The Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) and the Association of Electoral Courts of the Mexican Republic (ATERM) signed a framework collaboration agreement to promote a digital electoral justice based on the use and implementation of technological means that allow the creation of unique electronic files, in order to follow each judicial process from beginning to end.
The presiding magistrate of the TEPJF, Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, affirmed that this agreement contributes to advancing the path of single and digital electoral justice with citizen orientation.
In this sense, he stressed that through this agreement the use of all the digital tools to establish a single electoral trial, which allows to have an electronic file that helps to give an account and to know the electoral justice from its origin to the last instance.
For this reason, Magistrate Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón said, ATERM and the TEPJF decided to take joint steps towards the future, for a modern justice that meets the democratic demands of an increasingly informed citizenry, that generates more demanding contexts and that expects from electoral justice a guarantee of complete electoral processes , clean, fair and inclusive.
He stressed that in recent weeks, the TEPJF It has worked to join forces with institutions in order to guarantee a better exercise of the political-electoral rights of citizens.
For his part, the magistrate Felipe Fuentes Barrera He emphasized that from this signature the digitization of electoral justice both at the federal and state levels begins, by observing the principle of progressiveness of human rights, while continuing the online trial system implemented by the electoral Tribunal during the pandemic.
He specified that in this digital era also at the state level, information and communication technologies must be used to defend political-electoral rights, therefore, he said, federal and local courts must close the digital gap that still exists between them.
Magistrate Fuentes Barrera highlighted that the signing of the agreement represents an advance towards the use of technology and brings the administration of justice closer to society, through tools that interconnect the online trial from the local level with the TEPJF system. He added that it seeks to create a Virtual Parties Office to present demands and appeals, an electronic file, a system that allows monitoring the means of challenge, among other tools.
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