The Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) will discuss today a project that throws away the thousands of challenges against the allocation of plurinominal deputies and confirms the qualified majority of Morena and allies.
According to the draft judgment, which will be presented by the judge Felipe de la Matathe opposition’s requests are declared unfounded, Pink Tide and academics who asked to interpret the Constitutionrather than its literal application.
“The literal interpretation e historical system of proportional representation and the limit on over-representation allows us to conclude that the verification of this is by party and not by coalition,” which dismantles the main argument of the opposition to challenge the allocation of legislators by proportional representation.
The magistrate indicates that the principle of overrepresentation limit of 8% has been applied since 1996 per party, in addition to the fact that there is an agreement from December 2023 of the INE, which was confirmed by the Superior Chamber, another of the complaints that is declared unfounded is that Morena exceeds the constitutional limit of 300 deputies.
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2024-08-28 20:29:43