Chihuahua lawmakers seek electoral safeguards after court ruling

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Arturo Medina, coordinator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s parliamentary group in Chihuahua’s state Congress, said lawmakers will seek alternatives to preserve electoral safeguards against organized-crime interference after Mexico’s Supreme Court invalidated provisions of a state electoral reform. Medina called the ruling “very unpleasant,” according to El Heraldo de Chihuahua.

The newspaper reported that Medina said the PRI would examine options with Alfredo Chávez, coordinator of the National Action Party’s parliamentary group. He acknowledged that restoring the provisions to the state Constitution through the same procedure could be difficult after the Supreme Court’s decision. Medina also backed Governor María Eugenia Campos Galván’s announcement that she would present a new initiative on electoral safeguards.

El Heraldo de Chihuahua reported that Medina said protecting elections from possible organized-crime intervention must remain on the Congress agenda as Chihuahua approaches the 2027 electoral process. He criticized Morena lawmakers over their position on the reform and the court ruling, alleging that the party had used the Supreme Court, electoral authorities and other autonomous institutions for its own interests. Those accusations are Medina’s political statements; the report did not independently establish them.