Andrea Becerril and Georgina Saldierna
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, October 31, 2024, p. 3
On the last day of their deadline, eight of the 11 ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) sent their refusal to participate in the electoral process in June of next year to the board of directors of the Senate.
In the Senate plenary session, the resignations of Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, Margarita Ríos Farjat, Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo, Alberto Pérez Dayan, Javier Lainez, Juan Luis Alcántara, the current president of the court, Norma Piña, and even Luis María Aguilar were announced. , who concludes his term at the end of November and a debate was opened, since the opposition demanded that Morena threaten the ministers with denying them their retirement benefits.
The eight ministers took advantage of the seventh transitory article of the constitutional reform in judicial matters, which establishes that if they do not compete in the electoral process of June 2025, they must present their resignation no later than yesterday, which will become effective end of August of next year and they will be able to retire with their pensions and other million-dollar benefits.
The president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, commented that they will analyze the resignations, especially that of Minister Luis María Aguilar, who concludes his 15-year tenure in the Supreme Court.
He explained that they will wait for the resolution taken by the Supreme Court on November 5, when they discuss the unconstitutionality actions against the judicial reform, to determine the procedure that will be given to the resignations and declinations presented.
Already in the session, PAN and PRI complained to Fernández Noroña that the ministers were being threatened with not accepting the resignations, so as not to pay them the salaries to which they are entitled. The coordinator of the PRI, Manuel Añorve, also complained that judges who arrived yesterday with their resignations had not been attended to.
PAN member Ricardo Anaya stressed that it is nonsense or it is simply a trap to be threatening the ministers with not accepting their resignations when they are about to resolve unconstitutionality actions, when you yourselves established, in the seventh transitional article, the obligation to resign to access what corresponds to you by law. , which is your retirement asset, as would correspond to any worker
.
Fernández Noroña responded that no one has been threatened and his benchmate Manuel Huerta Ladrón de Guevara stressed that It is not the first time in history that the Court has been overwhelmed by these changes in political regime
. He pointed out that it happened to President Benito Juárez.
Furthermore, he added, the ministers They have nothing to complain about if they leave with full saddlebags.
. The coordinator of Morena, Adán Augusto López Hernández, intervened to indicate that this debate was unnecessary and called for serenity, because Everything has its time and at the time it will be debated to decide what proceeds in the case of the resignations presented
.
At the end of the session, it was reported that 342 judges and 503 magistrates notified their decision not to compete in the extraordinary election of June 2025.
The swearing-in of the five members of the Congressional evaluation committee for judges, which had been scheduled for yesterday, was postponed to this Wednesday at the Senate headquarters. These are Maday Merino Damián, Andrés Norberto García Reper Favila, María Gabriela Sánchez García, Maribel Concepción Méndez de Lara and Ana Patricia Briseño Torres.
