DISSENTING OPINION OF LUIS OCTAVIO VADO GRAJALES, REGARDING THE AGREEMENT IN WHICH THE CONSECUTIVE ELECTION GUIDELINES FOR THE ELECTORAL PROCEDURE 2017-2018 ARE APPROVED.
In moving away from the project that is put in consideration, I want to present the arguments by which I hold a consistent interpretation of art. 14, section V of the Electoral Law of the State of Querétaro on re-election, based on the criteria held by the SCJN (Mexico´s Supreme Court) The foregoing considering that the current text of the national Constitution, as well as the various initiatives in terms of reelection and consecutive election, it follows that the reasons for those are the following: 1. Create closer links between the voters and their representatives. 2. Limit the allocation of candidacies for the so-called power quotas. 3. Establish an accountability mechanism, given the prospect of re-occupying a position of popular election. 4. Professionalize the exercise of public office. The mentioned article 14, section V of the Queretaro law, in this regard, regulates in a literal sense the following assumptions: • Legislators who intend to be re-elected or elected...