Political parties comply with law.

Members of the General Council with the State Electoral Institute ruled that most political parties complied with a provision in state law that mandates gender-equality in candidate nominations.

Council Chair Javier Garay said the board made the decision based on a ruling from a regional office of the Federal Electoral Court regarding an appeal filed against some of the nominees. Electoral council members voted in favor of a resolution that declared most political parties complied with law in quantitative and qualitative terms.

State law mandates candidacies must be 50 percent for women and the other half for men. Also, the law indicates that districts and municipalities where a political party has had more votes must also be distributed equally.

The only exception during the election cycle was the Baja California Party, which was forced to replace the District V Assembly candidate.

National Action Party state chair José Ovando said before the council’s decision that the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI in Spanish, did not comply with law and was about to replace most of its candidates.

PRI state chair Chris López called his opponent’s arguments as half-truths and full-lies that seek only to impact citizen’s participation in campaign.