Teqroo Orders Protection for Minors in Morena Internal Process Images

Chetumal, Quintana Roo — The Electoral Tribunal of Quintana Roo (Teqroo) has granted precautionary measures to protect minors whose faces appear in images and videos from the Morena party’s internal selection process, ordering that the children’s identities be obscured or the materials removed.

In a session Friday, the tribunal addressed 15 appeals filed by Erikc Sánchez Córdova against the National Commission of Honor and Justice of Morena, the party’s Complaints and Reports Commission, and the legal director of the state Electoral Institute (Ieqroo).

The tribunal revoked rulings issued by Ieqroo’s legal director in electoral cases 028 and 031, finding that the official had failed to properly justify and motivate the decisions. The director had declined to act on Sánchez Córdova’s complaints on the grounds that they concerned Morena’s internal affairs and fell outside the institute’s jurisdiction.

Sánchez Córdova’s complaints targeted Isla Mujeres Mayor Atenea Gómez and Othón P. Blanco Mayor Yensunni Martínez Hernández, alleging conduct that could constitute electoral violations, including prohibited personal promotion, breaches of Article 134 of the Constitution, and harm to the best interests of children.

The tribunal declared two appeals — electoral case 034 and an accompanying citizen rights case — inadmissible because they were filed after the legal deadline.

In the remaining appeals, Teqroo ruled that Ieqroo’s Complaints and Reports Commission had improperly tied the protection of minors to the existence of an electoral violation without independently assessing the risk posed by disseminating identifiable images of children. The tribunal granted the requested precautionary measures, instructing that faces be blurred, hidden, or made unrecognizable, or that the images be removed, without prejudging the merits of the underlying dispute.