The candidates
Bernardo Bátiz
The jurist and politician has been loyal to Andrés Manuel López Obrador for more than 20 years. In 2000 he was appointed by Tabasco, then head of government, as Attorney General of the CDMX.
In 2021, the law graduate also from UNAM was part of the list that López Obrador sent to the Senate to be a minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), but was not selected. He is currently a member of the Federal Judicial Council.
Bátiz has also been a legislator, parliamentary coordinator and contributed as a constituent deputy to create the first Constitution of Mexico City.
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Jaime Santana Turral
He has more than 20 years of experience in the Judiciary, since he has been a judge, magistrate and executive secretary of Discipline of the Federal Judicial Council (CJF) during the time that this was chaired By Arturo Zaldívar, who today is a policy and government coordinator of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
He, together with Zaldívar and other former collaborators of the retirement minister, were under investigation for an anonymous complaint sent in April 2024 to the SCJN, in which they were accused of alleged pressures to judges and magistrates to decide resolutions in favor of their interests.
However, in March of this year, the CJF revoked the agreement to continue the investigation.
He is currently a circuit magistrate in the fourth collegiate court in criminal matters of the second circuit, based in Toluca, and at the same time he campaign for the Discipline Court.
José Artemio Zuñiga Mendoza
Like Jaime Santana Turral, he was pointed out to have collaborated with Zaldívar to allegedly press judges and magistrates to issue sentences.
He is a lawyer and specialist in Criminal Law and Procuration of Justice and has more than 20 years of experience in the judicial career; He is currently a judge and has taken cases such as the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya.
Emanuel Montiel Flores
He has a degree, teacher and doctor in law. Most of his professional career has been in Tlaxcala, as he began as municipal judge of the Zacatelco City Council. Subsequently, he was technical secretary in the Commission of Legislative Studies of the Senate from 2018 to 2023, which chaired by the Tlaxcalteca Morenista, Ana Lilia Rivera.
He is a MORENA militant since October 2013, according to the Registry of the National Electoral Institute (INE); In his contest for being a member of the Court of Discipline, he sought to appear on the electoral ballot as “the popular defender”, but the electoral body rejected that nicknames are used.
He is currently a documentation and investigation assistant at the Electoral Court of Tlaxcala.
Juan Pedro Alcudia Vázquez
Another contender linked to Morena is Juan Pedro Alcudia Vázquez, who until a month ago was a legal advisor of the Government of Campeche, headed by the Morenista Layda Sansores.
He participated several times in the Morenista program called “Jaguar Tuesday”, where he seconded decisions of the president. For example, in 2023 he defended the appointment in the state cabinet of expansionist Jorge Luis Lavalle, ensuring that he had no sentence against him, so there were no limitations – right or constitutional – to be secretary of Economic Development in the entity.
Alcudia Vázquez, who graduated from the Free School of Law of Puebla, also worked as a legal director in Álvaro Obregón, when this capital mayor was headed by Sansores from 2018 to 2019.
Rufino León Tovar
He is currently a magistrate president of the First Chamber of the Federal Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (TFCA), but in 2021 he tried to be a candidate for the governorship of Hidalgo by Morena.
The constitutional law specialist had public office at the CDMX during the administrations of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Marcelo Ebrard and Miguel Ángel Mancera.
