This 2025, the new head will receive the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office with a budget of 8,552.1 million pesos, an increase of just 3.8% compared to the previous year, without considering that inflation was 4.44% until December 2024.
Doubts about the autonomy of the CDMX Prosecutor’s Office
Since 2020, the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office is an autonomous body, with its own legal personality and assets, indicates Article 44 of the local Constitution.
Previously, the person in charge of the Attorney General’s Office was directly appointed by the head of Government, as one more member of her cabinet, which could compromise its performance, for example, in the investigation of possible cases of corruption in the Government itself. local, in addition to being able to be removed by whoever governed the city without the need for any justification.
However, the autonomy of the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office has been in question since its origin: its first head, Ernestina Godoy, is one of the founders of Morena and was a local legislator for said party before being appointed by Claudia Sheinbaum, then head of Government. as head of the Attorney General’s Office and then be elected by the city Congress as city prosecutor in 2020.
His term ended on January 9, 2024, in the face of accusations from opposition deputies about acting with political and partisan overtones ahead of the elections and not achieving a qualified majority for a second term.
Mayor Luján arrives as the new prosecutor with doubts about the autonomy he will be able to exercise given his connections – both family and political – with the party in power, Morena.
