translated from Spanish: Judge grants suspension to Elektra against closures by COVID-19

A district judge granted a suspension to Grupo Elektra against the closure of stores by the Secretariat of Labor.
The precautionary measure is only valid for chain stores where Banco Azteca’s windows exist, as financial activity is classified as essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The First District Judge in Administrative Matters in the State of Nuevo León, Adgar Ulises Rentería Cabañez, granted the suspension to the social reason Nueva Elektra del Milenio S.A. de C.V., owned by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, on May 2nd, as part of the amparo trial 526/2020.
The suspension was handed over on Wednesday to regional directors in Elektra for distribution in each of its stores to protect itself on subsequent visits by inspectors from the Secretariat of Labor.
“In the present case, it is appropriate to suspend the acts claimed on the grounds and grounds immediately claimed at the outright. The complaining expresses, under a protest of telling the truth, the good-founded fear that those responsible will order the suspension of essential activities in their establishments, on the grounds that it does not carry out essential activities permitted by the General Health Council,” says the office to which Political Animal had access.
The judge noted that, in accordance with the agreement published in the Official Journal of the Federation on 31 March, which establishes extraordinary measures to address the health emergency, financial activity was classified as essential by the health authority.
“In order to safeguard the human rights of the population, the pronouncement of the suspension of plan is carried out, taking into account that the promoter states that it is imminent that he suspends the financial activities he provides – considered essential; therefore, Based on numerals 125 and 126 of the Amparo Act, the suspension of the acts claimed is granted, for the purpose that the responsible authorities, in the absence of a different legal cause to prevent it, as set out in the following paragraphs, do not suspend the financial activities it provides as a credit aid, in its form as a foreign exchange center and money transmitter of the complainant’s moral person,” the document states.
“Please note that the ex officio and flat suspension that has already been decreed will have no effect if there is no module for the attention of such financial activities in the express service in the relevant branches of the complaining morality”.
The courter cautioned that the suspension does not prevent the authorities from carrying out subsequent inspections to verify that the branches are in compliance with the health measures containing the pandemic.
“In addition, this precautionary measure does not have the scope of preventing the authorities from exercising their powers in order to verify compliance with the various agreements issued in order to address the health emergency generated by the SARS-CoV2 virus, irrespective of whether it is intended to verify and verify compliance with occupational health or safety and health obligations. The above, on the grounds that the provisions of public policy which cause harm to the social interest cannot be unknown,” the judge said.
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Original source in Spanish