Nestor Jimenez and Emir Olivares
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 10, 2024, p. 4
With the constitutional reform to the Judicial Branch of the Federation being debated in the Senate Nothing will be destroyed; on the contrary
said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In this way, she responded to the position of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, who stated that The demolition of the Judiciary is not the way
that should be followed.
In his morning press conference, the president assured that the minister has the right to express herself, like all those who oppose, but insisted that It is obvious, public domain, most people know it, that corruption prevails in the Judicial Branch and that it is urgent to clean it up for the benefit of everyone, even businessmen, bankers, foreigners who have investments in Mexico.
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He quoted Francisco Zarco, a member of the Constituent Congress of 1856: “one should destroy with one hand and build with the other (…) If something is rotten, if something is decadent, with whom can the transformation, reform, purification of public life be achieved? With the participation of the people.”
Moments earlier, the President stressed that both the Executive and Legislative branches have been cleaned up during this six-year term, while the Judiciary remains the same. When asked if a demolition is needed there rather than a clean-up, he replied: “The same as in the other branches. She used the word ‘demolition’, but nothing is going to be destroyed, on the contrary.”
He pointed out that the president of the Court herself acknowledged that between 45 and 50 percent of the workers are family members. Well, it’s the power of the family, that is, it’s the DIF, nepotism at its best. Imagine a power where half of those who work are family members.
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During yesterday’s morning press conference, he repeatedly refuted criticism of the reform from the opposition. Don’t believe Aguilar Camín or Krauze that there will be a dictatorship, because for there to be a dictatorship a dictator is needed, or just that they are thinking about the dictatorship of the proletariat. If they talk about a dictatorship, let’s see, where is the dictator?
and reiterated: I’m leaving, I’m disappearing, I’m retiring, I’m not going to participate in anything again, much less in politics.
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He announced that today he will present a report on nepotism in that sector, which states that Children, parents, partners, nephews, uncles, brothers-in-law and even mothers-in-law of at least 500 judges and magistrates occupy positions in courts and tribunals of their affiliation or of others
according to a study carried out in 31 states. The information, he explained, was delivered to the Federal Judicial Council (CJF) and the SCJN.
On August 19, The Day published that within the electronic registry of family relations, the basis of the Comprehensive Plan to Combat Nepotism in the CJF, it was detected that in the federal courts and tribunals there were 6,755 family networks
in 2022, ranging from two to 79 relatives with positions within the Judiciary.
Although he avoided going into the discussion taking place in the Senate, he criticized the fact that businessman Claudio X. González “continues to be the coordinator of the conservative bloc… How can it be that a businessman from the influence-peddling era of Salinas de Gortari is the boss of everyone, the one who orders what the leaders of the conservative bloc parties have to do! That has never been seen before. He is the one who takes the roll call.”
He also referred to PAN senator María de Jesús Díaz, who spoke out in favor of lynching those who do not vote against the reform. Look at that, they came out authoritarian
the president noted.
