Overview

• The Sala Superior dismissed 17 challenges on August 13–14 by a 3–2 vote of Mónica Soto, Felipe Fuentes and Felipe de la Mata, ruling that complainants lacked admissible evidence to link ‘acordeones’ to election outcomes.
• Magistrate Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón circulated a draft annulment project documenting 3,017 printed voting guides in 26 states with 324 photos, videos and audios and asserting a 73% correlation between guide content and successful SCJN candidates.
• The proposal contends that systematic distribution of ‘acordeones’ amounted to prohibited electoral propaganda and meets statutory grounds for voiding the Supreme Court ministerial election.
• The tribunal remains divided as the annulment project moves to a plenary vote scheduled before the August 28 deadline for resolving all judicial election appeals.
• If the tribunal annuls the vote, the Senate would be required to call an extraordinary election and the INE and FGR could open probes into potential illicit financing linked to the guides.