Victor Ballinas
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, p. 7
Doctors of law, jurists, academics and researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) warned yesterday that the proposal to replace the Federal Judicial Council of the Judicial Branch with a Judicial Administration Body and a Judicial Disciplinary Court It would weaken the independence of this power and make it easier for those who are part of it to respond to partisan and political preferences.
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On the second day of the forums on constitutional reform in the area of justice organized by UNAM, the head of the Open University System and professor of the Faculty of Law, Irene Emilia Trejo Hernández, highlighted, at the Aragón Faculty of Professional Studies, where two working tables were held, that the proposal to create the Judicial Administration Body –which would be in charge of appointments and training of judges, the creation of new jurisdictional bodies and the management of the budget, separate from the Supreme Court– would affect the independence of the judicial system.
This, he stressed, is because the five members of the body will be proposed by other powers: one by the Senate, another by the Executive and three by the Supreme Court. He also stressed that control over its budget would be like a gag
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In his speech, FES Acatlán professor Ulises Leonardo García Vázquez agreed that the specific profile of the members of this body is not indicated and that it could be sought to have those who have political affinity and not necessarily the ability to judge objectively.
