translated from Spanish: TEPJF demands PRI pay fine for bidding electoral roll

Mexico.- The Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation (TEPJF) of new account rejected the request of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the payment of the fine that the National Electoral Institute (INE) put on sale on the Free Market its electoral roll. The penalty was more than 84 million pesos, which will have to be taken from its budget for the current electoral processes.
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The Institutional Revolutionary had argued that paying 84 million 388 thousand 178 pesos would damage the level playing field in election elections 2020-2021, hence asking for a new deadline to comply with the sanction after the election was held on Sunday, June 6. However, as on previous occasions, such an application was denied by the electoral court. Read more: INE cancels Raúl Morón’s spots for positioning him as a candidate for michoacán’s gubernatura Two months ago, on February 4, the Upper Chamber of the TEPJF had referred to the PRI that the tolerant electoral body by allowing it to settle the economic penalty in 6 monthly payments, so for this reason it could not grant it a further postponement.

In the face of such a situation, the party led by Alejandro Moreno sent a letter to the INE asking him to consider the economic conditions under which the party was gone, coupled with elections this year as evidence for the amount to be settled after the election was completed. However, the request was declined by the electoral arbitrator, since changing the resolution validated by the General Council would violate the principle of legal certainty and definability, as a result, the party association re-filed with the TEPJF, a body that remained firm not to change the time limit, sending it to the fine. Read more: Alfonso Durazo can compete for Sonoran gubernatura: TEPJF In February 2025. the National Electoral Institute gave the PRI the Nominal List of Review Voters (LNER), during election elections at the federal level 2014-2015. The list was found on the Free Market platform where it was sold as an “INE Database 2018” for 2 thousand pesos learning about it by the Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters.That is why the Technical Unit of the Dispute of the INE carried out the corresponding investigation corroborating that it was the document that in 2015 had given the Institutional Revolutionary , hence, on 26 November 2020, the General Council fined the party by reducing 10% of its corresponding regular public funding for the 2021 elections.

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