Unanimously by its 11 ministers, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the extension of the mandate from two to five years for the Governor of Baja California, Jaime Bonilla and ordered their invalidity.
As a precedent, in the city of Tijuana, the local Congress approved a law last October 2019, derived from a citizen consultation with participation of 1.9% of the state electorate and after a discussion through extraordinary session by the legislators approved in just 30 minutes the reform to the eighth transitory article of Decree 112 of the state constitution, approving the extension of the mandate from 2 to 5 years.
Derived from the above, several political parties and the National Human Rights Commission among others, promoted unconstitutional actions against the article referred above.
Fortunately, on Monday, May 11, 2020, the plenary session of the Supreme Court considered that the Baja California Congress violated various fundamental principles of the Mexican democratic system, such as those of certainty, legality and legal security, as well as constitutional bases of the political organization, the right to vote and be voted, the non-re-election and non-retroactivity of the laws, declaring the unconstitutionality of the reform to the eighth transitory article of Decree 112 of the state constitution, which is why the Governor of Baja California mandate will end in 2021.
Resolution is attached.
