TEPJF will not interfere in the Congress of the Union


The plenary session of the Chamber of Senators approved by 61 votes from Morena, PT, PVEM and PES, 39 from PAN, PRI, MC and PRD against, and one abstention, to add the General Law of the System of Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters.

The amendment consists of excluding from the competence of the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) the scrutiny of parliamentary acts of the Congress of the Union, of its Permanent Commission, or of each of its Chambers, issued by its governing bodies. , whose purpose is the integration, organization and internal functioning of its legislative bodies and commissions.

In accordance with the decree sent to the federal Executive for its promulgation, the TEPJF cannot be granted powers that the Constitution and the law do not recognize.

In the statement of reasons, the opinion states that the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal conducted itself in an unlimited manner when reviewing the decisions of the parliamentary sphere, affecting the balance of powers established by the Constitution.

And it is that recently the electoral magistrates resolved in favor the challenges promoted by federal deputies of the Citizen Movement (MC) and senators of the plural group when they were excluded in the last integration of the Permanent Commission of the Congress of the Union.

Senator Germán Martínez Cázares said from the rostrum that “the reform has a dedication, it has a recipient and part of that destiny is the plural group and the sentence that it obtained in the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power to be part of the Permanent Commission.

Senator Miguel Ángel Mancera (PRD) recalled that last August the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ruled that, as a rule, any act or omission of the authority of the Legislative branch, including those of an intra-legislative nature, that is, without value of law, are justiciable when any human right is affected, except for certain assumptions specifically excluded by the constituent power or by the Congress of the Union through constitutional norms.

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