Gustavo Castillo and Cesar Arellano
The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, September 19, 2024, p. 6
The Federal Judicial Council (CJF) will resume on Monday the legal deadlines, that is, the time granted to authorities, lawyers and victims or defendants, to present documents, evidence or testimonies, and with it, de facto, All courts must resume their activities. A working group is also being organised, demanded by employees who oppose the judicial reform and who demand that their acquired rights be guaranteed.
The above was reported by CJF executives at the end of the plenary session, in which by five votes to two (those of Minister Norma Lucía Piña Hernández and Councilor Lilia Mónica López Benítez) the resumption of deadlines in all courts and tribunals of the country was approved starting on Monday.
It was also agreed that a working group will be set up this Friday, as demanded by the dissatisfied who oppose the judicial reform. The aim is for the Judiciary to guarantee them that their working conditions and salaries will not change.
Dozens of workers gathered minutes before 11 a.m. at the headquarters of the Judiciary, located in the south of Mexico City; there, for almost three hours, they chanted slogans against the judicial reform, requesting the support of the councilors. The protesters asked the councilors to come out to participate in their rally, but only councilor Lilia Mónica López Benítez did.
They shouted the surnames of the councillors Sergio Javier Molina Martínez and José Alfonso Montalvo Martínez. Neither of them responded to the call.
They demand a working table
During the mobilization they demanded the installation of a working table with the dialogue committee (made up of workers), with a view to defining the necessary strategies to protect the labor rights of those of us who work within courts and tribunals
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A group of employees submitted a document with 4,000 signatures to the Judiciary, which confirms that the same number of rank-and-file and unionized workers want to be part of the negotiating table, where they claim to defend their labor rights.
The demonstration lasted until almost 2 p.m. on Insurgentes and Doctor Gálvez Avenue, in the south of Mexico City, a time when a plenary session of the Judiciary was scheduled and among other points it was intended to discuss whether the support
to the workers’ movement and they were allowed to continue their strikes in courts and tribunals.
Councilor Lilia Mónica López Benítez expressed her support for those opposed to the entry into force of judicial reform and told them at the door of the CJF headquarters: I am here because I share your ideals, because I am convinced that this is our home, and our home is cared for and protected (…) I believe in the rule of law. I believe in the separation of powers, the PJF has been one of the powers that has been at the service of society, that has fulfilled its mission and has changed the lives of many people who are subject to justice.
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Meanwhile, the National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges (Jufed) announced that its representatives will continue the work stoppage in all courts and tribunals, and that the CJF and the SCJN have been notified of this.
Yesterday, hours after the mobilization ended, Montalvo and Molina voted jointly with councilors Bernardo Bátiz Vázquez, Celia Maya García and Eva Verónica de Gyvés Zárate to order all jurisdictional bodies in the country to resume their legal deadlines.
Thus, formally the suspension of general activities in the courts and tribunals that began on August 19, must end on Monday, in case the workers want to protest, carry out demonstrations or present appeals against the entry into force of the judicial reform, they will have to do so outside of their working hours, explained PJF authorities.
