Overview

• Magistrada Janine Otálora proposes revoking the penalties and ordering a comprehensive INE investigation that determines mode, time and place, respects procedural guarantees and properly values candidates’ deslindes.
• Magistrado Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón recommends upholding the fines, arguing the guides functioned as electoral propaganda that benefited certain candidacies, including the case of Hugo Aguilar.
• The INE previously imposed sanctions equivalent to 10% of the campaign spending cap on 176 people for appearing in printed or digital ‘acordeones’.
• Newly sworn magistrates Gilberto Bátiz and Claudia Valle will take part in the discussion despite having been sanctioned themselves for featuring in the guides.
• Otálora’s draft, which reviews 19 appeals, states the INE recognized multiple guide models but lacked corroborating proof of digital distribution or authorship and generalized responsibility across candidacies.