Overview

• The INE’s General Council will meet on July 28 to vote on sanctions proposed for 121 elected judicial candidates featured in illicit “acordeones” flyers.
• Fines are calibrated at 10 percent of each office’s campaign spending limit, ranging from 22,000 pesos for district judges to 146,000 pesos for Supreme Court ministers.
• INE investigators catalogued 336 distinct flyer models guiding voters but have not been able to trace who financed or printed them.
• About 685 candidates appeared in the vote-steering materials and some 400 of those secured judicial posts in Mexico’s first direct election for the judiciary.
• The OAS electoral observation mission flagged that names promoted in the flyers largely corresponded with winners, triggering civil society challenges to the election’s equity.