Iván Evair Saldaña
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, p. 4
When rendering her first annual work report, Minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama accused that the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) has not complied with the remuneration cap established by article 127 of the Constitution for 14 years, which means that to date it has deflected
of the treasury bonuses
higher than those of the President of the Republic, more than 30 billion pesos.
From the Museum of Mexico City, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) indicated that there are currently 2,377 officials of the Judicial Branch who violate the salary cap, which in total exceeds 2,167 million. 352 thousand 603 pesos the constitutional limit.
If we consider that this limit has been in force for 14 years, we could assure that the Judiciary has diverted 30 thousand 342 million 936 thousand 442 pesos in unconstitutionally self-assigned bonuses for its high bureaucracy.
Batres arrived at the Court on December 14, 2023. Upon completing her first year, she stated that she and her 79 collaborators (presenting members) have complied with the law, which means adjusting to the salary limit and giving up benefits such as private insurance. , generating savings to the treasury of 10 million 904 thousand 69 pesos in that period.
He has returned 3 million 139 thousand pesos to the treasury
Regarding the salary and benefits as Minister of the Court, she noted that she has returned one million 377 thousand 271 pesos in cash and has not received benefits prohibited by law that cost one million 761 thousand 944 pesos, which means a saving of 3 million 139 thousand 215 pesos.
“I return these resources because we must start at some point and because I believe that ‘the good judge begins by his own house.’”
Batres acknowledged that he is doing activism
with the judicial reform, as they have reproached him, but he affirmed that it was to show off the diagnosis of excesses
in the PJF and the urgency of profound changes that it needs, not to mock or defend privileges.
The detractors will continue to implore its failure, the opportunists will take advantage of it to try to reestablish the privileges that the reform suppresses, the oligarchs will seek to remake the networks of influence that the election will interrupt.
he warned.
At that event, Batres was accompanied by her family, including Martí Batres, director of the Issste; of Morena militants and legislators; of more than a dozen judges and magistrates who support judicial reform; and representatives of the federal government, including Jesús Ramírez, coordinator of advisors to President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
As part of his activities in the Court, he summarized that he had to analyze and vote on 1,839 issues in plenary session and in the courtroom, and explained that from January to November of this year, 530 issues have been assigned to him, of which 78 percent have been resolved. , that is, 412: voted in favor 357; against, 29, and returned to collegiate courts, 26.
