The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, asked the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) to inform Mexicans in detail why they want more money than that allocated in the Expenditure Budget of the Federation (PEF) for the fiscal year of 2025, for 7,000 million pesos, to organize the election of ministers, magistrates and judges that will be held for the first time in Mexico on June 1.
During his daily press conference at the National Palace, he reported that at the request of the electoral councilors he will meet with them next January to discuss the issue of the budget for the election of judges.
“They probably asked me for a meeting, or well, we are going to receive them, we just have to see the date with the president (of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei), at the beginning of January. They want to give us a budget proposal. We continue with the same idea. They have to make public, because the INE is an institution that operates with public resources, what they are going to allocate the resources to and how many resources are needed, according to them, in the election of the Judicial Branch,” he responded to the alleged specific.
The Mexican president specified that the Chamber of Deputies authorized, via the PEF-2025, an expense of nearly 7,000 million pesos for the organization of the aforementioned election, and that the electoral counselors “have to say how they are going to use” that amount. money; “And if they require more, why do they require more?”
“So, that is what I hope they will raise not only in a meeting that we will have, but also that they will make it public. Let the people of Mexico know what the budget of the 7,000 million (pesos) or more that they require for the election is used. As long as it is not made public and it is not known why, it is very difficult to know why they require more than 7,000 million pesos to carry out the election,” he expressed.
Organization
In compliance with the Constitution, on June 1, 2025, Mexican citizens will elect, for the first time, the members of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF).
That day, 881 positions of judges will be contested at the polls: nine ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), five magistrates of the new Judicial Disciplinary Court (TDJ), two magistrates of the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of Power Judicial Court of the Federation (TEPJF), 15 magistrates from the Regional Chambers of the TEPJF, and half of the 1,700 Circuit magistrates and judges of District there are in the country, that is, 464 and 386, respectively, because the rest will be elected in the intermediate federal elections of 2027.
