The Electoral Court declared this Wednesday “constitutionally unfeasible” to stop the elections within the Judiciary in June 2025 and gave the green light to the National Electoral Institute (INE) to continue with the organization of the elections.
The Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF), resolved with three votes in favor and two against, as “appropriate” the declarative action requested by the INE to continue with the preparation of the next vote of ministers, judges and magistrates.
The presiding magistrate of the TEPJF, Mónica Soto, stated that “it is constitutionally unfeasible to suspend the conduct of electoral procedures.”
The Court’s ruling is the product of the INE’s request to resolve the 140 amparo suspensions or notifications to stop the election process of judges and magistrates scheduled for June 2025.
Although he ruled that the electoral process must continue, Soto clarified that the TEPJF will not rule on the suspension resolutions of the protection judges.
“The validity, legality or effectiveness of the actions or suspension resolutions issued by various amparo judges is not a matter of pronouncement or litigation, therefore, these determinations are untouched in this ruling,” Soto said.
In addition to Soto, Felipe De la Mata, the magistrate in charge of the project, and Felipe Fuentes Barrera voted in favor of the ruling, while Janine Otálora and Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón voted against it.
In a statement, the TEPJF reiterated that “the organization of the PEEPJF (Extraordinary Electoral Process of the Judiciary) 2024-2025 must continue.”
The General Council of the INE may issue the agreements that it deems necessary for the organization, development, reception of the vote, counting, surveillance and supervision of the elections.
In addition to the requirements that applicants must present, it is specified that the judging persons who are currently in office will be incorporated into the lists of candidates that the Senate sends to the INE, to the same position they hold, except when they express the decline of their candidacy.
Last Monday, the Chamber of Deputies approved, in general, the opinion to the minute that reforms and adds various provisions of the General Law of the System of Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters, related to the update of the means of challenge in the process of electing members of the Judiciary.
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