Home > 2.4 Complaints and appeals > MEXICO - General Law on Electoral Institutions and Procedures of Mexico
 
 
 
Download file    
 
 
Article 124
 

124.1. In the case of the power of attraction referred to in subsection c) of Section C of Basis V of article 41 of the Constitution, the petition can only be submitted by at least four of the Electoral Councilors of the Institute or the majority of the General Council of the Local Public Body. The General Council will exercise the power of attraction provided that it is approved by a majority of at least eight votes.


124.2. The petition should include the elements set out in paragraph 4 of article 121 and can be presented at any time.


124.3. A question is considered as important when the intrinsic nature of the issue allows that this covers an extreme interest reflected in the seriousness of the matter, that is, in the possible affectation or alteration of the development of the electoral process or of the principles of the local electoral function.


124.4. For the attraction of a matter in order to set an interpretative standard, the Institute should assess its exceptional or novel character, as well as the significance that the decision could produce both for the society in general and for the local electoral function by the setting of a judicial standard for future cases or the systematic complexity of them.


124.5. The decisions corresponding to this power will be issued by the General Council with the assistance in the work of its commissions and of the General Council of the Local Public Body. These decisions could be appealed to the Electoral Tribunal.