Statistical Analysis of Unconstitutionality Actions in Electoral Matters 2014-2015

Abstract

One of the characteristics of the electoral processes in Mexico, is without a doubt, its high judicialization, whether it is a question of electoral contests of the federal or local order, since the same thing is settled in the courts the result of a municipal election, or of local or federal deputies, that the election of President of the Republic. Another distinctive note of this kind of processes in our country corresponds to the dynamism of the rules of the democratic game that, process after process, imply regulatory adjustments of the constitutional and legal order, which must be promulgated prior to the start of the electoral process of in question, and eventually, in case of being challenged, the analysis as to its correspondence with the Federal Constitution in charge of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, must also be resolved prior to the start of the respective electoral process. In this context, the present work is inscribed, precisely within the framework of the constitutional control in electoral matters exercised by the Highest Court of the country, in order to show a brief statistical analysis on the number of actions of unconstitutionality in the matter, that the Supreme Court It has had to resolve, from the Constitutional reform in electoral matters of 2014, and its relationship with the electoral processes, the number of issues, to conclude with a brief reflection, on the binding nature of what was decided by the Highest Court.