translated from Spanish: SCJN declares unconstitutional Bonilla extends mandate until 2024

With the unanimous vote of the 11 ministers, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) declared the reform to the Lower California Political Constitution unconstitutional, which allowed Jaime Bonilla to extend his term until 2024. 
The article that everything remains as before the reform in Baja Californua. I mean, Bonilla will only be governor until October 31 next. In its original two-year period.
Jaime Bonilla has maintained that he launched himself as a candidate for a period of five years, as at the time of his registration indicated by the law.
However, it omitted to point out that it was registered in a call that clearly stated that the term of office would begin on 1 November 2019 and end on 30 September 2021.
The court’s ministers have mostly agreed that the reform passed in Baja California violates three basic constitutional principles: electoral certainty, right to vote and be voted on, and not re-election. This has extended the winner’s term from 2 to 5 years after the vote had passed.
And they consider this reform to be a threat to the democratic system, by opening up the possibility of extending positions for different periods for which a candidate was voted.
Minister Arturo Zaldívar considered the law “to be a great fraud of the constitution and the democratic system that it constitutes”.
The so-called ‘Bonilla Law’ was published on October 17, 2019 in the official journal of Baja California.
The National Action (PAN), Citizen Movement (MC), Democratic Revolution (PRD), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) parties, as well as the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) and the National Electoral Institute (INE) promoted the action of unconstitutionality that was discussed today in plenary session.
The presentation was made by Minister José Fernando Franco González Salas, and proposed to declare the reform to Article 8 of Baja California invalid.
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Original source in Spanish