Noroña challenges the INE to prove that the Senate can knock down ‘narcocandidates’: ‘We did what we had to do’

The Senate cannot eliminate the 26 candidates who do not meet the qualifications for the judicial election, due to links with organized crime and other aspects, such as the National Electoral Institute (INE), said Gerardo Fernández Noroña, president of the Senate’s board of directors, in an interview with the media, carried out prior to the beginning of the Permanent Commission session. “If the INE is presumed dead, then we go to the Electoral T…

Councillors of the National Electoral Institute (INE) pointed out that this body does not have the power to cancel candidates from the judicial election, since the review of candidates' files touched on the three evaluation committees, one for each power of the Union, not the institute.

Judicial Reform did not confer powers on the National Electoral Institute Regarding the legislative branch's request to cancel 26 candidatures for the Judicial Election, the councillor of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Jorge Montaño Ventura, said that the constitutional reform did not grant powers or participation to the electoral authority in the process of selecting candidates, [...] The Committees position had to verify candidate req…

Gerardo Fernández Noroña, president of the executive board of the Senate of the Republic, described the role of the National Electoral Institute (INE), as useless, when questioned about the controversy over the cancellation of candidatures to judges and magistrates alleged to be linked to organized crime. The morenist reiterated that the electoral referee is of no use, after the general council in a session said that he has no power to annul the…

Leticia Robles de la RosaGerardo Fernández Noroña said that, if the INE ignores the Senate's request to withdraw 26 judicial nominations, it will go to the TEPJF and, if the TEPJF also rejects it, it will be recorded that there was an effort to withdraw those nominations. “If the INE considers itself dead, then we go to the Electoral Tribunal (...) the INE has not resolved, it will already resolve,” said the president of the Senate's Board of Di…

It was reported on May 7, that the President of the Mexican Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, said that if the National Electoral Institute (INE) does not withdraw the 26 judicial candidacies, linked, or associated by investigation, to organized crime, he will appeal to the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF). ‘Well, I challenge the INE to tell us where there is this legal attribution in the Constitution so that th…