Two candidates for multi-member migrant deputies saw their chances of reaching the Mexican Congress fall, after winning a lawsuit before the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), which challenged their nomination due to who do not meet the requirement of having lived in the country in the last two years.
The fallen candidates are: Mirna Maldonado of the Morena party by the second constituency that includes the states of Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas.
Maldonado was unsuccessful in her attempt to become a multi-migrant deputy because for the past 30 years lives in Mexico. Maldonado was No. 5 on the multi-member list, with some chance of winning a lower house seat. The small problem was that he was not a migrant.
The other candidate whose candidacy for multi-member deputy for the PAN for the second circumscription went to Javier Luévano. This character could not prove that he was a migrant or indigenous.
According to Luévano, he is a Chicahuale indigenous. However, it was denied by the leader of that indigenous group in Aguascalientes, Felipe de Luna, who said that the PAN is not part of them.
“ What follows now is to replace those candidacies. In the case of MORENA, there are three candidates to replace Maldonado, Guadalupe Adabache Reyes who lives in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles and Martina Grijalbo, a resident of Houston, Texas, and myself who live in Los Angeles ”, said Juan José Gutiérrez, MORENA’s national advisor abroad, who filed the lawsuit against Maldonado that was won in court.
Although Gutiérrez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, his parents are from Zacatecas where he grew up and is registered to vote. He has also been 50 years living in Los Angeles.
He let it be known that MORENA rejected the challenge claim, saying that it was inadmissible, on the grounds that it did not get in on time. “Like it or not, Maldonado’s candidacy has already fallen and they are going to have to replace it,” says Gutiérrez.
And he adds that It is important to stop the simulation.
“Enough of simulations. They want to include us, but in fact they block us and want to continue with cronyism, family ties, personal relationships and group interests in the appointment of candidates. Enough is enough, Mexicans do not deserve to be disrespected in that way. It is immoral, unethical and totally unacceptable. ”
When a few months ago the names of those who make up the lists of candidates for multi-member migrant deputies for the Mexican Congress, voices of disagreement were heard among migrant leaders in the United States.
Guadalupe Gómez, president of the Federation of Zacatecan Clubs of Southern California, who was one of those who challenged the designation of the pluri candidates as soon as the lists came out, went further by saying that more than 50% of those designated do not meet the denomination of being migrants.
“The serious thing is that the INE (National Electoral Institute) is not making known See all the data of the candidates. So it keeps them protected and we cannot challenge them. ”
He noted that such candidates presented notarized letters as proof that they live in the United States. , when in this country they are second evidence documents. “What I regret the most is that they did not take into account the immigrant organizations that have worked for the community,” he stated.
And he made it clear that they are not going to remain silent and are going to continue with the challenges against any candidate who is not a migrant.
Gutiérrez completed that political parties have until 72 hours before the election to replace candidates who do not comply with the requirements.
Maldonado and Luévano are not the only ones who have been cut off the list of multi-member migrant candidates. On the PRI side, the court eliminated the candidacy of César Augusto Aguirre Sánchez, who was in the first constituency comprising the states of Baja California, Baja California sur, Sinaloa, Sonora, Durango, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Nayarit.
This was possible thanks to the challenge of several migrant leaders residing in the US “It was possible to throw him down because he was a migrant ago 20 years. He has lived in Nayarit for a long time. He is also a native of Oaxaca, and for this case, he must have been born in Nayarit or in some state of the circumscription, ”said Nerida Vargas, treasurer of the Federation of Nayaritas FENINE-USA. Aguirre Sánchez was in the number place 10 of the PRI multi-member deputies.
Vargas regretted that party leaders use the lists of multi-member councils to accommodate their friends who are not migrants, and thus pay them for any commitment they have with them.
“The correct thing would have been for the political parties to turn their eyes to the migrant organizations from the United States that give our time voluntarily to our community. As migrants we already have another education and we do not cooperate with corruption. ”
In March, the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) approved an agreement to that the political parties incorporate a Mexican resident abroad within the 10 first places on each of the lists of candidates for multi-member deputies.
Already, it put them at a disadvantage because only the top two on the list usually win a seat in Congress, unless it is an election where some party will destroy as happened three years ago when Andrés Manuel López Obrador won.
The Chamber of Deputies of Mexico is composed of 500 legislators, 300 by choice and 200 are chosen by the multi-member route.
For multi-member deputies, Mexico is divided into 5 electoral districts, for which the political parties propose lists of candidates. The number of pluri that each party has depends on the number of votes they obtain in each election. Multi-member deputies do not have to campaign for an election.