Georgina Saldierna and Enrique Méndez
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 16, 2024, p. 3
The three evaluation committees of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers published the lists of candidates who met the initial requirements to compete for one of the five positions in the brand new Judicial Disciplinary Court, and the majority are magistrates or have held a position within of the Judiciary.
While the Congress validated just over 220 names of candidates, the Executive just over 200, the Judicial Branch – which received the smallest number of registrants – released only nine that met the constitutional and legal eligibility requirements.
Of these nine, five appear in the three lists, as they registered with the idea of having more possibilities of reaching the position: Dennise de Los Ángeles Uribe Obregón, magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of Veracruz; José Antonio Cruz Ramos, circuit magistrate; Octavio Ávila Martínez, secretary of the Judiciary Council; Juvenal Carbajal Díaz, head of the twentieth collegiate court in administrative matters, and Rogelio Zacarías Rodríguez Garduño, former legal auditor at the SCJN.
While Jaime Santana Turral, magistrate and former head of the Executive Secretariat of Discipline and close to Minister Arturo Zaldívar; and Liliana Hernández Hernández, court secretary, duplicated registration before the Executive and Judicial Branch committees.
Once the list of aspiring judges has been issued, the evaluation committees – including that of Congress – will proceed to interview them to select those who are suitable.
Gerardo Fernández Noroña, president of the Senate, said that challenges to the process must be sent to the electoral court, so that it can resolve what is appropriate. Among the cases that could be presented are those of applicants who consider they were unfairly excluded.
