The publication Principialist Electoral Justice will be presented this Saturday at FIL

The editorial proposal of the 35 Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) opens spaces for all audiences, including texts that combine both academic analysis and the same experience, the result in this case is a dialogue between both fields that allow us a look at the work of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation, a specialized body to resolve controversies in electoral matters and protect the political-electoral rights of citizens.

This Saturday, December 4 at 11 a.m., the magistrate of the Electoral Court of the Federal Judicial Branch (TEPJF), Felipe de la Mata Pizaña, and Roselia Bustillo Marín, the academic, researcher, and Secretary for Study and Account of the presentation by the same magistrate, will present the work “Principialist Electoral Justice”, edited by Tirant lo Blanch,

With the reading of this work, the interested public will be able to know and explore various sentences of the TEPJF in which the protection and equal inclusion of disadvantaged people and the full exercise of their political rights have been sought, as well as a discussion of constitutional and democratic doctrine.

Both authors seek a dialogue between the various resolutions of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power, it is the opportunity to reconstruct and explain contemporary electoral law.

His proposal is based on the hypothesis that supports a principled electoral justice, which is judicially used as a formula and an interpretation tool that reflects an electoral judicial philosophy that began to take shape, especially with the electoral reform of 2007 and 2008.

According to the authors, “through electoral principlism, the constitutional justice on this matter justifies and argues the reasons on which the sentences are based, as a study mechanism of the applicable norms that does not start from the idea that whoever judges deviates from the norms or values ​​inscribed in its contents, but rather endows them with legal content to give coherence to the electoral legal system ”.

What is the TEPJF?

The Electoral Court is, according to the Mexican Constitution, the highest jurisdictional authority in electoral matters, and has the competence to resolve, definitively and unassailably, electoral disputes such as: Challenges in federal elections of deputies and senators, challenges that are presented on the election of the president, or the challenges of acts and resolutions of the federal electoral authority that violate constitutional or legal norms.

It is made up of a Superior Chamber, made up of seven electoral magistrates, five regional chambers, made up of three magistrates, and a Specialized Chamber, with three members as well. The administration, surveillance and discipline functions of the Court correspond to the Administration Commission by a presiding Magistrate.

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