Mexico City. The Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) revoked the decision of Minister Luis María Aguilar Morales, who in July of last year admitted for processing the constitutional controversy promoted by the government of the State of Mexico, against the cut to its federal shares, after a survey by the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI) revealed a decrease in its population.
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The decision of this Wednesday was glimpsed since November of last year, when the same Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nacipon rejected a project of Minister Javier Laynez, which sought to deny the claim of INEGI and process the controversy of the State from Mexico. Photo Marco Peláez / Archive
By a majority of three votes to two, the ministers of the second chamber declared founded the claim filed by INEGI against the admission of this matter, and revoked the agreement of Minister Aguilar, which closed the possibility that the SCJN look into this litigation.
The Mexican government affirmed that INEGI’s National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), from the first quarter of last year, reflected a decrease of 1,171,379 inhabitants in the entity.
As these figures are used to calculate the federal budget items that are allocated to each entity, its effect was a decrease of 3,415 million pesos in the money allocated to the State of Mexico, and that is why it went to the SCJN.
In the approved draft resolution, prepared by Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán, it is stated that the figures of any INEGI study can be appealed through the resources provided for in the Law of the National System of Information and Statistics and Geography, which the State did not do. from Mexico.
If they had entered the fund, the door would be opened so that the results of all INEGI’s technical studies could be attacked in court, without first going through the technical resources provided by law.
The decision of this Wednesday was glimpsed since November of last year, when the same Second Chamber of the SCJN rejected a project by Minister Javier Laynez, which sought to deny INEGI’s claim and process the controversy of the State of Mexico.