Delivered the legislative list of aspiring judges almost at the limit of the term
Andrea Becerril
La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, February 2, 2025, p. 8
Almost at the limit of the deadline, the Evaluation Committee of the Legislative Power published the list of more than 2,300 candidates for judges who met the eligibility requirements, who today will be raffled to define the candidates for the election of the next June 1 ; The panista Roberto Gil Zuarth does not appear on such a list.
Among the 60 postulates for the position of ministers, who was not the Undersecretary of the Interior in the Sexenio de Felipe Calderón and then legislator of the blue and white. Gil Zuarth only passed the first selection, not the second, which included a face -to -face interview with the members of that committee and the review of academic merits, experience, honesty and probity.
In fact, of 10,887 selected on December 15, more than 2,300, and in the case of the ministers, of 367 the Committee nominated 40 women and 20 men, a good part of them with a judicial career.
The committee list contains an error, since in the case of the two vacancies to be covered in the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) there is only a relationship of nine aspiring men, but there is a lack of women’s .
On the other hand, the page with the 20 lawyers who met the suitability requirement to contend for the position of magistrate of the Fiscal Discipline Court, which will replace the Federal Judiciary Council, figure twice.
The list of suitable applicants includes 88 prospects to occupy vacancies in the regional rooms of the TEPJF, in addition to about 1,500 for magistrates and about 700 judges of the 32 judicial circuits of the country.
Both the Legislative Committee and that of the Executive Power, which also selected about 2,300 lawyers, will today carry out the public insaculation process, in order to adjust the number of applications for each of the 881 positions that will be in dispute in dispute The extraordinary election of June.
Twice to the raffle
In the tooms, some will have two opportunities. They are the ones who registered in two or the three evaluation committees, managed to be selected and this Sunday they can prove good luck more than one occasion. Among them are the aspiring ministers María Estela Ríos, legal advisor in the last government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Jaime Cárdenas Gracia, academic, political scientist and former deputy of the PT.
They appear in the listings of the Legislative and the Executive. In the same condition are Jesús George Zamora, legal advisor of the Government of the State of Mexico; Sara Irene Herrerías, head of the Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), and Estela Fuentes Jiménez, president of the Administrative Court of Justice of Mexico City.
For the position of magistrates of the Court of Judicial Discipline, Celia Maya, current member of the Federal Judiciary Council, will also have two opportunities.
Neither the Evaluation Entity of the Legislative nor the Executive selected from the suitable to Marisela Morales, who was the head of the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR) in part of the government of Felipe Calderón, but will be on the electoral ticket, since In the judiciary they gave him a direct pass.
