AMLO and Sheinbaum did not commit political violence by calling lawmakers ‘traitors to the fatherland’: TEPJF

The Superior Chamber of the Federal Judicial Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) unanimously revoked the sentence which stated that the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), the head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and the president of the Political Coordination Council (Jucopo) of the Chamber of Deputies, Ignacio Mier Velazco, would have engaged in political violence and institutional action against the legislators of the National Action Party (PAN) and the Citizen Movement (MC) calling them “traitors to the fatherland”.

During the ordinary session of this Wednesday, March 1, the magistrates discussed the grievances presented by the two parties, during which it was pleaded the creation of a so-called campaign against those who voted against the electricity reforminitiative that had been sent by the federal executive.

Based on the evidence presented, the two political institutes determined that the alleged campaign began in April 2022 when, in various events and social networks, they called members of the opposition “traitors to the fatherland” because they did not support changes to said item.

Likewise, the sentence pronounced by the Regional Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal was also discussed because the deputy of the Movimiento Ciudadano, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, spoke against her, indicating that she had not foreseen minimum measures of reparation, compensation and non-repetition facts.

“On the other hand, the defendants indicated that the Specialized Regional Chamber did not prove that there had been any intention to infringe the political-electoral rights of the complainants or alleged systematicity”, could be read among the points which were discussed this afternoon.

In this sense, the Electoral Tribunal has decided, on the proposal of President Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, revoke the judgment of the specialized chamberbecause political and institutional violence by members of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) was non-existent.

“To prove political violence, a series of acts perpetrated by those who exercise power in an asymmetrical relationship are necessary, with the aim of hindering the exercise of public office, violating human dignity, as well as carrying undermining fundamental democratic values, which has not happened”

The previous decision responded to the fact that, according to the magistrates, the denounced remarks which had previously been qualified as insulting were aimed at civil servants in their capacity as parliamentarians. after the exercise of their functions, and not during the same.

In other words, the charges brought by the members of the Fourth Transformation were after the vote of the deputiesTherefore, the magistrates agreed that these words had no interference in it, nor is it noted that they could hinder the exercise of the office later.

For these reasons, it was determined that absence of political and institutional violence denounced (SUP-REP-7/2023 and cumulative)”, these are the words that concluded the declaration published after the discussion in the Court.

It was on January 13 that the Specialized Chamber determined that both the president and the head of government had engaged in political violence, after allegedly slandering lawmakers who had voted against the electricity reform by calling them “traitors to the fatherland”.

According to the resolution read by the President of the Chamber, Rubén Jesús Lara, was “the existing political and institutional violence because there is a violation of the plaintiffs’ political rights.

“The exercise of politico-electoral rights must be done with based on dignity and freedom. And it seems to me that if there is a slander, if there is a position in which the person who voted against the reform proposal is qualified, then clearly these possibilities are violated, ”he explained.