Judicial independence is not the independence of judges, it is the principle that guarantees an adequate administration of justice to make the freedoms and equality of Mexicans effective, affirmed the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). , Norma Piña, who called to work “shoulder to shoulder” for the benefit of the country.
“Today I invite you to work shoulder to shoulder for the good of our country to set an example of good, that in national unity we are worthy heirs of our history. The Constitution is the federal pact that allows us to overcome our differences and agree on the fundamentals, and agree on the fundamentals, as expressed by Mariano Orero ”, he noted.
Judicial independence is the main guarantee of impartiality of the Judiciary, added the judge in the framework of the 106th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of 1917.
“We have the responsibility to preserve and strengthen it, otherwise we run the risk of diminishing this guarantee to the detriment of the very people who demand justice from us,” he said.
In his first official event and meeting with President López Obrador since he took office as the Supreme Court on January 2, Piña Hernández stressed that an independent judiciary is a pillar of our democracy.
Before, the governor of Querétaro, Mauricio Kuri, urged harmony and to remember that the Constitution establishes that there will be no one above it and does not admit shortcuts, plans or legislative procedures to violate it.
“There has not been, there is not and there will not be social equality without freedom and political pluralism. The democracy that is not free, withers. The freedom that is not exercised, is lost ”, he expressed at the Teatro de la República in Querétaro.
The event was attended by the presidents of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Santiago Creel, and of the Senate, Alejandro Armenta, as well as the head of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Minister Norma Lucía Piña.
There were also the so-called “corcholatas”: the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, the foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard and the head of the Interior, Adán Augusto López. In addition, members of the legal and extended cabinet, magistrates, federal and local legislators attended.
