The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) of Mexico stopped this Friday the application of the electoral reform promoted by the government of the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The SCJN suspended indefinitely the entry into force of the plan B by admitting the demand of constitutional controversy filed by the National Electoral Institute (INE).
The country’s highest court reported that this dispute should be analyzed by the minister Javier Laynez Potisek.
The judge admitted the claim and granted the suspension. “requested by the INE with respect to all the contested articles of the decree for the purpose that things remain in the state they are in today and rule the current dispositions before the respective reform.
Once the appeal has been admitted for processing, Minister Laynez must receive the arguments of the Executive and Legislative powers on this reform, prepare a sentence project and propose it to the plenary of the SCJN, which does not have a date to materialize.
This ruling occurs when the opposition to President López Obrador has presented judicial resources to stop the reform of the Mexican Government in electoral matters, known as plan B, after a previous one did not reach a majority in Congress to become law.
The so-called “Plan B” of the electoral reform approved in the Senate reduces the budget and the personal of the National Electoral Institute (INE), the institution that organizes the elections in Mexico.
Before the entry into force of the reform, the opposition and the INE challenged the changes and they filed in courts of protection to prevent the promoted changes from proceeding, which will now be suspended.
The Mexican president defends that the measurements will save millions of dollars (he described the salaries of senior INE officials as “stratospheric”) and assures that they will make the voting more efficient.
In addition, it accuses the body of not being impartial and of having allowed electoral fraud in the past, for which reason he had promised to modify it since he became president of the country.
The opposition considers that the reform limits the autonomy and reliability of the next presidential elections of 2024 (something that López Obrador has repeatedly denied).
Source: teleSUR