With 9 votes in favour, this May 8 the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation approved a project to give him the neck, completely, to the reforms to two laws that are part of the electoral plan B.
Let’s remember that everything was approved by Morena and allies in Congress last year. The Official Gazette of the Federation published it last December.
What did the Supreme Court discuss about electoral plan B?
Shortly after the pro-government majority in Congress approved the electoral plan B proposed by President López Obrador, the opposition parties (PRD, PAN, PRI and Movimiento Ciudadano) presented 7 actions of unconstitutionality before the Supreme Court.
In all this context, Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán prepared a draft sentence to totally invalidate the reforms to 2 laws that are part of plan B: the General Law of Social Communication and the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities.
The main argument for proposing to give a neck to a part of the controversial palace B is that there was violations of the legislative process that prevented Congress from fully considering the proposal. You know, that morning of approving things quickly and without joking.
But what does this mean? The first thing to say is that plan B is a series of electoral reforms to secondary laws that Morena and his allies approved in Congress last year. It is called like this because the original plan proposed a constitutional reform that did not pass.
According to the challenges that were presented, with the reforms that are now invalidated they favor that public servants use public money to promote their image.
In addition, in what has to do with the INE, it is argued that the reforms give the entire INE organization the upper hand, take away its autonomy and also hinder the ability to organize this year’s and next year’s elections.
The minister in charge of the project affirms that the principle of informed and democratic deliberation was passed through the triumphal arch. In other words, Morena and his allies approved so quickly that there was no opportunity to analyze them in depth.
And what were those process violations? To begin with, the approved project affirms that the initiative sent by AMLO and published in the Chamber of Deputies Gazette is not the same one that was presented for approval.
In addition, that the preferential initiatives of the president must be presented on the day that the regular session opens, not when one feels like it.
And not to let, that the Senate, the Governance Commission met and approved the opinion without the Commission of Legislative Points, what is not possible by regulation.
Let’s remember that this does not mean that all of plan B is frozen. The other part of the reforms, which also have challenges, are being analyzed by Minister Javier Laynez. What it is is that it is suspended while the matter is resolved.
