Nearly 150 INE employees took refuge against plan B

In view of the electoral reform package which has entered into force, 147 employees of the National Electoral Institute (INE) filed an amparo appeal against the alleged Plan Bpromoted by the President of the Republic Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).

was the signature Trusan and Roma lawyers the one responsible for presenting the appeal on behalf of electorate workers, who fear losing their jobs or having their salaries reduced.

“Our law firm has just filed the first appeal for amparo to protect the employees of the National Electoral Institute in the face of electoral reform. This defense is intended to prevent the loss of their source of employment and the various benefits available to the institution,” the litigant said. rodolfo martinez Via social networks.

After the publication of the second part of Plan B in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DDL) last Thursday, March 2, more than a hundred employees of the administrative areas, as well as of the electoral professional service, joined the demands of amparo before the restructuring proposed by the new law.

The amparo will be given to a judge, who will be responsible for determining whether the requests are accepted or not. “In this package, it is intended that their major medical expense policies and your up-to-date separation insurance. This is expressly stated in the reform and this is what we dispute, ”said Martínez in an interview for Millennium.

“Protection aims to protect their wages and wages because the reform provides for a reduction by establishing that it will have to be adjusted to the principles of reasonableness and proportionality; element which is not objective to establish the catalog of wages and salaries of employees, “said the lawyer.

It should be noted that the reform package consists of amendments to the general laws on electoral institutions and procedures, political parties, the organic law of the judiciary of the Federation, while the general law on the means of contestation in matters election is enacted.

“The amparo is the only appropriate way to contest the electoral reform that affects the electoral professional service, the administrative areas and the district councils, as well as to protect the policies of medical expenses and the separation insurance”, clarified Rodolfo Martínez .

On the other hand, it was last Friday, March 3, one day after the entry into force of the said amendments to the law, that eight members of the Executive General Council entregaron su renuncia al consejero president of the INE, Lorenzo Córdova Vianello.

Through a press release, the electoral arbiter announced the separation from office of: Ana Laura Martínez Lara, executive director of administration; Carlos Alberto Ferrer Silva, Head of Technical Litigation Department Electoral; Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes, in charge of Technical Inspection Unit and Gabriel Mendoza Elvira, legal council of the INE.

Meanwhile, another official who lost his job was the Executive Secretary, Edmundo Jacobo Molina, who remained in office for 14 years, having been appointed in 2008, 2014 and re-elected in 2020 for six more years.

However, he was the first to present an appeal for amparo, since he promoted it from the first day of the enactment of the reforms. This lawsuit was admitted by a district judge against the project, although at this time it is not known whether the judge granted the provisional stay requested by the plaintiff.

Although, on the other hand, the magistrate Janine Otalora of the Federal Judicial Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) proposed a project with which the article that orders the dismissal of Jacobo Molina is inapplicable, since he accused that it is unconstitutional.