INE will cancel election if winning candidate is a food debtor or committed gender-based violence

If approved, people who have alimony debts will be prohibited from accessing concerts, sporting events, cultural and recreational functions. Mexico City, April 25, 2025 (El Financiero).- With a tarpaulin that warned “If you don’t pay alimony, don’t go into the stadium”, Morena’s deputy in Mexico City, Pedro Hagas Lago, presented an initiative that seeks to prohibit access to shows to the late food debtors of the capital. If the initiative is app…

The electoral body approved a verification procedure to prevent aggressors, defaulting debtors or fugitives from holding positions as judges and magistrates Anayeli Tapia Sandoval The National Electoral Institute (INE) announced on Thursday that it will be able to cancel the candidatures, and even the wins, of persons competing for positions in the extraordinary judicial election if it is confirmed that they are fugitives from justice, defaultin…

The INE will be in charge of reviewing the evidence and will open a space for candidates to defend themselves against the accusations; in case of determining the veracity of the crimes, the Institute will declare the invalidity of the election.