What’s next?
These records are only those that were made before the Evaluation Committee of the Judiciary, those of the Legislative and Executive are missing, where there are 45,593 people registered.
In total, they were 49,398 people who registered to participate in the 2025 election and look for one of the 881 positions of judge, ministers and magistrate.
Now, in the next three months, the three committees (of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branch) will carry out three purges. In the end, a list of two to three candidates will be delivered for each of the positions that will be elected on the first Sunday in June 2025.
Each committee has different dates to complete the purification process, but they must follow the same steps even if the methods change. For example, the Judiciary Committee establishes that it will conduct an exam for its applicants, while the other two groups of the Executive and Legislative branches do not consider it.
The first review will be to verify that the almost 50 thousand registered applicants meet the constitutional and legal eligibility requirements, such as being Mexican by birth, lawyers by profession, with an average of more than 8 in the degree and having letters of recommendation from neighbors. . Those who have met the requirements will remain on the registry.
Subsequently, comes the second stage in which they will qualify the suitability: the committees will evaluate the applicants considering their technical knowledge necessary to perform the position they seek and that they have distinguished themselves by their “honesty, good public reputation, competence and academic and professional background.” professionals” during the exercise of their judicial activity. Each Committee placed different percentages on each item.
The last will be a process of insaculation or tomobola to “adjust” the number of applicants for each position. There will be three candidates for minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), for magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) and for the Disciplinary Court, and two more for Circuit magistrates and District judges .
Subsequently, the final lists must be sent to each Branch of the Union for “approval”; That is to say, although the committees choose the candidates, it will be the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial who approve or reject the contenders.
