Mexico City /
He Electoral Court He finally freed the governor of Veracruz, Cuitlahuac Garciafor intervening in the electoral process, since they considered that in the comments with which the PRI claimed that he defended and promoted Rocio Nahledid not directly mention his name.
The PRI challenged the resolution of the Electoral Court of Veracruz that declared the absence of misuse of public resourcesviolation of the principles of neutrality and impartiality, use of government advertising in the electoral ban and partisan defense in media attributed to the governor.
However, with a split vote with three votes in favor of the project of Judge Felipe Fuentes and two against, the Superior Court supported not sanctioning the governor nor attribute electoral illicit acts or irregularities to the campaign of the elected governor, Rocio Nahle.
The central argument was that the governor never directly mentioned Rocío Nahle’s name, despite the comments in which he referred to the “next governor” in the middle of the campaign.
The magistrate Janine Otálora He did not agree because he considered that the governor responded to explicit questions about Rocio Nahle and the accusations against him of an apparent unexplained enrichment, so his involvement was evident.
“The project proposes to confirm the resolution and I partially dissent, as I believe that the grievance is well-founded because the Court should have analyzed the probable violation of Article 134 of the Constitution.
“There are references to an attempt to smear the person who, I quote, ‘is going to be the governor’, ‘they keep trying to repeat a lie many times, without realizing that they have not had credibility for a long time’, this, in the middle of an electoral process and assuming the victory of the then candidate.”
What the magistrate agreed with Reyes Rodriguez MondragonHowever, his three peers formed the majority and left the governor without responsibility, ruling out all the electoral crimes of which they were accused, so their intervention will have no impact on the validate the triumph of Rocío Nahle.
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