The decision on whether the Evaluation Committee of the Judicial Branch of the Federation must resume or not to choose the candidates for judges for the June election, is in the hands of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).
After this committee initiated a controversy to resolve the case, the highest court of justice attracted the file. The matter was turned to Minister Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena because he already has other requests related to the subject.
On Thursday, the Evaluation Committee of the Judiciary asked the SCJN to resolve the conflict between two sentences: one issued by a Michoacán judge who asks to suspend the election process, and another by the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation ( TEPJF), in which he orders to continue his activities to choose the contestants.
He raised the intervention of the Court under article 11 of the Organic Law of the PJF, which empowers the Plenary of the SCJN to resolve “any controversy that arises within the PJF” on its internal operation.
While the controversy is solved, the Supreme Court granted a precautionary precautionary average to the evaluation committee so that things are maintained as they are currently encountered.
The above means that, while the controversy is resolved, in short, the activities of the Evaluation Committee of the Judicial Power of the Federation will continue, and this will not imply sanctions to its members, such as those established by the TEPJF: complaints before the Public Ministry or fines of up to 107 thousand pesos.
The committees of the Executive and Legislative Power have continued their activities to select the candidates of the judicial election, since they did not comply with the suspension of the Judge of Michoacán by ensuring that he had no competence to stop the process.
