Senators from PAN and MC will not go to today’s draw for the election of judges; PRI, yes

Andrea Becerril

La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 12, 2024, p. 4

The Senate will meet today to carry out the draw for the total number of positions for federal judges and magistrates, in order to define by this method 50 percent who will go to the extraordinary election in June 2025, and the other half to the 2027 process. .

The PAN and MC groups announced that they will not attend, and the PRI will do so to supervise that arbitrary decisions are not made.

Yesterday there was a rehearsal of that process unpublished to put the more than 1,700 judicial positions in the raffle, in which the presidents of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) and the board of directors of that Chamber, Adán Augusto López Hernández and Gerardo Fernandez Noroña, respectively, and others participated Morena legislators.

As with the National Lottery draws, luck will decide which heads of federal courts and tribunals will be renewed in 2025 and which will be able to remain in office until the 2027 electoral process, which senators must attest to.

In yesterday’s rehearsal, the two urns for insaculation were brought to the plenary session; Fernández Noroña explained that both the electronic board and the tombola that will be used are already ready for this task, which will take at least 12 hours.

In an interview, he maintained that the process “is very simple to decide which election the judges and magistrates will go to. It’s a matter of evens and odds. If a ball with an odd number is drawn from the urn, they will go to the 2025 election, and if it is even, to the 2027 election.”

In the case of the vacant seats – there are 186 – they go to the June 2025 election package, he detailed.

Regarding the decision of the PAN and MC benches not to appear today, although they were the ones who rejected the agreement that the Jucopo had already made that only a representative group of legislators would witness the draw and forced the agreement that it take place In a session, he commented that it is part of his intention to derail judicial reform so that citizens do not elect judges.

In any case, “we will do the quorum and the session, which will surely take many hours due to the number of charges to be determined, will take place” this Saturday.

Yesterday Fernández Noroña received Minister Yasmín Esquivel Mossa in the Senate to talk about the elective process underway.

On the other hand, Enrique Vargas, vice coordinator of the PAN, pointed out that They are not going to validate this great farce of the raffle and that from the beginning they expressed their rejection of judicial reform.

Likewise, through a statement, the MC faction reported that it will not be present at that embarrassing spectacle of dismissal of the judges’ charges.

Instead, the coordinator of the PRI, Manuel Añorve, announced that they will attend the ordinary session this Saturday to supervise and monitor the process and not let Morena and her allies make arbitrary decisions.