Mexico City. The guidelines regarding what is permitted and prohibited in the ongoing processes of the party blocs to select their presidential candidate will be announced by Wednesday at the latest. It will also be known whether the removal of advertising featuring the candidates, such as billboards, public transportation vehicles, and fences, is permitted or ordered.
This is because the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Branch has already notified the National Electoral Institute (INE) of the ruling confirming the validity of the call to elect the person responsible for the construction of the Broad Front for Mexico, promoted by the PAN, PRD and PRI, and ordering it to issue, within five calendar days, the "General Guidelines to regulate and oversee this and procedures with similar characteristics" (such as that of Morena and its allies the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist Party).
The parameters dictated by the judges establish a ban on candidates appearing in radio and television spots, and add that the INE's oversight of party spending must be expeditious. Furthermore, public servants must refrain from attending events on working days, and on non-working days, their participation must not be preponderant.
Without proselytism
The TEPJF notes that the Front's process was designed by its promoters "to prepare and select the profiles that will compete for the Presidency of the Republic.
However, it also emphasizes that while the guidelines entrusted to the INE are intended to provide certainty about the legal limits to which these types of processes are subject, early pre-campaign or campaign events, as well as other illicit conduct that could affect the fairness of the contest, are prohibited.
The parameters for drafting the guidelines were issued last Wednesday at the Superior Court's session, but the details of the ruling were only released today, including the dissenting opinion of Judge Janine Otálora, the only member of the TEPJF's Superior Court to propose annulling the meetings held by both party blocs.
Instead, the majority of judges (three of the four present at Wednesday's session) endorsed the criterion of protecting political freedoms, the right of parties to self-organize, as well as the political participation of citizens, and only imposing "justified restrictions" to prevent undue advantages:
