Plan for counting votes in the election of judges gains sympathy

Gustavo Castillo García

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, p. 4

Minister Juan Luis González Alcántara has not intended to stop the work of legislators on its own regarding the reform of the Judicial Branch, since He is making a solution proposal that needs at least another seven votes from his 10 colleagues, but this goes through a deliberation that will be public and that will eventually be voted on. Make no mistake, it is not a decision, it is just a minister’s projectstated Judge Juan José Olvera López, during the conference of judges.

During a meeting with the press, he pointed out that it must be “made clear that this is a draft sentence, not a decision, which implies that it is a deliberative process of judicial decisions in collegiate bodies, such as the Supreme Court.” National Court of Justice (SCJN).

The SCJN issues a project that addresses five actions of unconstitutionality related to judicial reform, and its proposal proposes overturning the election of judges and magistrates, considering that the annulment of the elections of the more than 1,600 justice providers is justified Even without analyzing the mere popular election as a method compatible with the democratic and republican regime for the election of judging persons, it is clear that both the system of nomination of candidates and the system of lists generated for voting, corrupt the foundations of our Republic. representative and democratic.

Valid selection

But it validates the popular election for members of the SCJN, the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) and the Judiciary Council.

In this regard, Judge Juan José Olvera López proposed that the position of President of the Republic and the legislators be understood to be naturally elected by the people, but that In the case of the judicial function, it is a technical function that serves to contain abuses of power by the other two powers..

While the providers of justice and their appointment to the positions of judges and magistrates They have another nature and that what is stipulated in the reform of the Judicial Branch does not comply with the basic principles that the Constitution itself establishes.

On the other hand, Judge Lucía del Carmen Flores Gaytán pointed out that one of the flaws that the Judicial Branch reform presents and that requires attention is related to more than 100 cases of those who have already sworn in as judges in various specialties and have not been assigned to any court for two years.

The so-called judicial reform does not include us anywhere, not even in the secondary laws. Our intention is to make this situation public, so that society knows and so that the powers that intend to address the problem can dispel each and every one of the doubts we have about what is going to happen to us.