INE Council rejects Cabeza de Vaca’s new candidacy request

Mexico City. The general council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) rejected the new application for registration of candidacy of the former governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, a PAN nomination that the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation annulled on April 17 (TEPJF), considering the former president a fugitive from justice.

However, this INE agreement – ​​approved by 10 votes in favor and one against – is challengeable, so once again it will be the Superior Chamber of the TEPJF that will determine whether it endorses the new legal situation of the former president, whom a judge granted a definitive suspension that in the opinion of the PAN restores his political electoral rights and makes him eligible.

The vote on the item took place minutes before two in the morning this Wednesday, after a long discussion, and almost twelve hours after the ordinary session of this council began.

Morena, a party that challenged the initial approval of the candidacy that the INE had given it, stated that it will go to the Court again to demand that the place that had been given to García Cabeza de Vaca, number one on the list, be declared vacant. of the second electoral district.

Meanwhile, counselor Arturo Castillo, when setting the meaning of his vote, in favor of the INE agreement, stressed:

“That is a situation that is up to the Superior Chamber to evaluate, not us. Legally, the mandate to make this substitution and carry out the corresponding evaluation remains in force. The change in legal situation now is a legal fact only in protection matters; “We don’t know what the consequences are in electoral matters.”

The ruling handed down by the Superior Chamber of the TEPJF, in file SUP-RAP-102/2024, revoked the registration of García Cabeza de Vaca; Therefore, the decision forced the PAN to request the INE to replace the candidate, for which it proposed Homero Alonso Florez Ordóñez, who immediately resigned, in order to request the registration of the former president again based on a definitive suspension that stops any legal action against you, including the suspension of your rights.

Where is Cabeza de Vaca?

Faced with this, the representative of Morena, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, opened his intervention with an expression: Where are you Cabeza de Vaca? He pointed out that he has arrest warrants issued by an Almoloya judge.

He accused that the PAN intends to set a precedent for judges to give orders to the TEPJF; Additionally, he filed a complaint against the district judge before the Federal Judicial Council. “That judge is going to end up in jail,” he warned.

He recalled what his party said in the sense that the former governor does not meet the requirements to be eligible, specifically residence in Tamaulipas, so this is a fraud.

Morena’s deputy, Mario Llergo, pointed out that there are 17 addresses of the former governor and asked the opposition do they know where he is? Who did not appear for the search or the summons.

“This body (the INE) is extremely obliged to attend to and support the resolution of the TEPJF.”

And meanwhile, the PAN and allies said that the trials against García Cabeza de Vaca are part of political persecution and revenge, “for not handing over” the state to the government.

“The persecutory obsession of Morena and its government is surprising,” said PAN legislator Luis Gerardo Serrato Castillo.

Meanwhile, counselor Dania Ravel, the only one who spoke out against the agreement, argued that although the determination of the Superior Chamber is firm and unassailable, “today we have a new legal act,” so we must proceed to the registration, she considered. .