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SCM-JDC-412/2021 Y SCM-JRC-21/2021 ACUMULADO de medidas especiales o afirmativas, normalmente llamadas "acciones afirmativas"; y, 3) el análisis de actos y preceptos normativos que directa o indirectamente (por resultado), o de forma tácita, sean discriminatorios19. Respecto al segundo eje, es importante mencionar que las acciones afirmativas –concepto que complementa el de discriminación positiva– pretenden cuestionar y modificar aquellas situaciones fácticas que impiden y obstaculizan que los grupos excluidos alcancen la igualdad efectiva en el reclamo por sus derechos. Dicho de otro modo, la acción afirmativa restablece la igualdad en la que se encuentran diversos grupos sociales a los que se ha negado o restringido la posibilidad de acceder y participar en la configuración, validación y reclamos de sus derechos en igualdad de oportunidades. En ese sentido, es importante señalar que la Sala Superior ha sustentado los siguientes criterios, respecto al tema de las acciones afirmativas: Los elementos fundamentales de las acciones afirmativas son: Objeto y fin, (personas o grupos) destinatarios y conducta exigible20. • Las acciones afirmativas son medidas especiales de carácter temporal que se adoptan para generar igualdad y no se considerarán discriminatorias siempre que sean razonables, 19 El concepto y la práctica de la acción afirmativa. Informe final presentado por el Sr. Marc Bossuyt, Relator Especial, de conformidad con la Subcomisión. Resolución 1998/5. Por su parte, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos estableció que las medidas de acción afirmativa son concebidas para promover la participación política con los principios de igualdad y no discriminación. Informe Anual de la CIDH 1999, OEA/Ser. L/V/II.106, dic. 3 v. 13 de abril de 2000, capítulo VI, sección II, punto B. 20 Tesis de jurisprudencia 11/2015, de rubro: ACCIONES AFIRMATIVAS. ELEMENTOS FUNDAMENTALES. consultable en Gaceta de Jurisprudencia y Tesis en materia electoral, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, año 8, número 16, dos mil quince, páginas 13, 14 y 15. 26

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(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021

Judgment

Question Presented: Whether there is an obligation among political parties to comply with a candidate quota that included people from the LGBTQIA + community even though there was no legal order or law to do so.

Alleged Acts: Various questions were sent to the General Council of the Electoral Institute and Citizen Participation of the State of Guerrero about the implementation of affirmative measures or actions, aimed at guaranteeing the inclusion of people of sexual diversity in real spaces of political representation. Dissatisfied with the previous answer, a complaint was filed before the local Court.

Procedural history: The local court ruled in favor for the omission of a LGBTQIA+ candidate quota with regard to the implementation of affirmative actions in favor of LGBTTTIQ+ persons for the integration of City Councils and the State Congress. However, given the progress of the local electoral process, it determined that the implementation of these quotas in the candidacies for the positions of was materially impossible, and therefore only ordered the local Institute to issue guidelines in the form of affirmative action for this electoral process for the integration of municipalities. Plaintiffs appealed to the Mexico City Regional Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power.

Summary: The court agreed with the lower court’s reasoning that in the absence of a legal determination that specifically obliges political parties to comply with a quota, the Electoral Institute was obliged by constitutional and conventional mandates to establish concrete affirmative actions to achieve an effective standard of inclusion and representation of the LGBTQIA+ population in public positions under conditions of equality and in full exercise of their political-electoral rights. Consequently, the court ordered the Electoral Institute to issue the guidelines by means of which affirmative action bind the political parties, coalitions, and common candidacies so that there is an inclusive quota of candidates who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ population.

Conclusion: The local Institute was obliged to establish concrete affirmative actions as it was the ideal way to achieve an effective standard of inclusion and representation of said population in public office.

Legal Issue(s)

Gender
Quotas

Applicable Law(s): Article 1 of the Federal Constitution; Article 4 of the Federal Constitution; Article 105 of the Federal Constitution; Article 5 of the State of Guerrero; Article 10 of the State of Guerrero

Region: Americas

Country: Mexico

Language of Decision

Spanish

Court: Appellate Court

Election Type: Local

Date of decision: Apr 3, 2021

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Latitude: 19.43318644

Longitude: -99.13401778

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