Fernando Camacho and Enrique Méndez
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, August 14, 2025, p. 6
“To do a lot with little” budget, and even lower wages, is one of the commitments of the next president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, who said that the highest court will be “open doors”, to take into account all sectors, and that the figure of the “unattainable minister” ceases to exist.
The Mixtec jurist said that he reaches the position “with whole autonomy”, having no commitments to any political party, although he clarified that this independence “does not imply isolation, rupture or confrontation” and is open to dialogue with the other powers.
After participating in a forum in the Chamber of Deputies, within the framework of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, Aguilar agreed to answer three media questions – whose issue was previously inquired by legislative communication personnel -, one related to the budget for the next year of the SCJN.
The above, because the outgoing ministers of the Court would request an increase of 8.1 percent in real terms by 2026.
“We already carry out the review of the operation of the Court, of the budget, and we will propose some adjustments, because as they know, who will make the decision will be the judicial administration body. But we have reviewed and still need to adjust wages. We are going to go down,” he said.
Despite this, he said, “there will not be a contradiction between austerity and efficiency. We are going to do a lot with little,” and reiterated: “I have no political career, I have no commitment to any party, political group or any other sector.”
From “day one,” he said, in the SCJN “we are going to change aspects of form, from opening the door, the treatment, the closeness with the people. There will no longer be the unattainable minister, with which it is difficult to speak. The only limiting will be time, which reaches us in the hours of the day to dialogue with everyone.”
