Last Sunday, the Legislature requested the electoral authority to remove the candidacies of 26 profiles, six of which have an investigation file and the rest due to links with organized crime or because they did not demonstrate an average of eight. It is expected that the INE will respond to the Legislature in its session this Thursday, stating that it legally does not have the authority to remove candidacies, and in any case, it would be after the election, when the eligibility of the candidates is assessed.
The Senate cannot eliminate the 26 candidates who do not meet the suitability for the judicial election, due to links with organized crime and other aspects, as the National Electoral Institute (INE) is expected to respond, stated Gerardo Fernández Noroña, president of the Senate board, in an interview with the media conducted prior to the start of the Permanent Commission session.
"If the INE gives up, then we go to the Electoral Tribunal. We have already gone through the legal route, let's see what it says, the debate over the 11 is pending," Fernández Noroña commented. He added that if the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation also does not resolve, "we have already done what we had to do." He criticized that these cases are being used to disqualify the judicial election and challenged the INE to point out where the legal authority is in the Constitution for the Senate to act in that regard.
The above comes after Counselor Norma de la Cruz suggested that the institute does not have the legal authority to withdraw candidacies, and in any case, the Senate could inform the institute that the Powers of the Union desist from nominating them as candidates. The counselor estimated that it could be done under the transitional provision of the call for the judicial election, which allows the Legislature to resolve everything not provided for in that document. "Well, it's an interpretation, I don't see that we have that authority," stated Norma de la Cruz.
