Electoral Access to Justice in the Democratic State Law
If the fundamental right of access to justice is important at the individual and collective levels, such right becomes of special relevance in the context of Electoral Law. This greater significance stems from the very definition of a democratic state, which must be based on the rule of law. Thus, t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Mexicana de Derecho Electoral |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/9951 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/derecho-electoral/article/view/9951 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | election process law access to justice standing procedural requirements principle of legality derecho procesal electoral acceso a la justicia legitimación procesal requisitos de procedibilidad principio de legalidad |
| Sumario: | If the fundamental right of access to justice is important at the individual and collective levels, such right becomes of special relevance in the context of Electoral Law. This greater significance stems from the very definition of a democratic state, which must be based on the rule of law. Thus, the core of this paper focuses on the right of access to electoral justice by presenting emblematic cases brought to the Superior Electoral Court of the Federal Judicial Branch. In these cases, the court facilitated, and even expanded, the conditions for admissibility in the system of challenges for electoral matters. As a consequence, the court effectively increased access to electoral justice to a greater number of plaintiffs in electoral law procedures. The author concludes by outlining three proposals aimed at improving the protection of citizens’ political and electoral rights. |
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