Setback for Alito: The Electoral Tribunal reverses Enrique Ochoa Reza's expulsion from the PRI.

MEXICO CITY (apro).- The Federal Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch (TEPJF) dealt a blow Wednesday to Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, president of the PRI (National Institutional Revolutionary Party), and his group, by "plainly and simply" revoking the resolution of the PRI's Justice Commission to expel former president Enrique Ochoa Reza for criticizing the party's leadership.

The case, heard in the Superior Court session, stems from the purge carried out by "Alito" Moreno against the more than 250 party officials who challenged the National Assembly's resolution of June 7, 2024, in which the former governor of Campeche ordered the PRI's statutes to be modified to allow him to remain in office until 2032.

Enrique Ochoa Reza, former president of the PRI and director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) during Enrique Peña Nieto's administration, was one of those who denounced the decision's legality and criticized Alejandro Moreno's lackluster election results as leader of the political party. In retaliation, the politician was expelled from the PRI by the Justice Commission, which considered that he had affected the "image of the party."

Initially, Judge Felipe Fuentes Barrera sought to offer Alejandro Moreno a way out: his draft resolution sided with Ochoa, but left it up to the Justice Commission to analyze "the evidence and, if necessary, gather the necessary information and issue a new, duly reasoned and motivated resolution."

This option was rejected by judges Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, Janine Otálora Malassis, and President Mónica Aralí Soto Fregoso, who considered that the PRI should simply revoke the decision of its Justice Commission and, therefore, return Ochoa Reza's membership.

The decision represents a serious setback for the former governor, who, in an effort to retain his small group at the helm of the PRI, faced off against a bloc of former longtime party leaders, including Dulce María Sauri, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, José Antonio González, as well as former governors and local party officials, who challenged the General Assembly's resolution before the TEPJF (Provincial Electoral Tribunal).

In October 2024, the majority bloc of Superior Court justices, led by President Soto, rejected the challenge to these figures and approved the modification of the PRI's statutes.