César Arellano García
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, p. 8
The process being carried out for the extraordinary election of judges in 2025 is unconstitutional and undemocratic, because it goes against the multiple suspensions that have been granted so that it does not go ahead, magistrates said in the so-called conference of judges.
Furthermore, they warned, it does not respect the law or the rights of the people, which is why they even demanded that the organizers make transparent the list of candidates registered in the committees of the Executive and Legislative branches to participate.
We need data. They have given the numbers of people who, they say, have registered, but we do not have lists to verify if they have reliable support from a person who has requested that registration. Only the Judiciary Evaluation Committee has carried them out. There we have seen several people who are officers, secretaries or actuaries
stated José Rogelio Alanís García, of the fourth collegiate court in criminal matters of the first circuit.
He reiterated that a true democracy cannot be based on suspicions, but on accurate data: Hence the importance of having mechanisms and guarantees for people to access accurate information.
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The independence of judges is stillborn
For Judge Fernando Silva García, son of Juan Silva Meza, former president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), the government does not seek to democratize the Judiciary, but rather to subordinate it through strategies, including eliminating 7 thousand independent judges. . He pointed out that with this process, judicial independence born dead
before the election.
“In the same way, this sinister design of the reform will result in the great voter being the political power, not the citizens and that the process will most likely be defined in an office, not in the polls.”
In this regard, Judge Carmen García González insisted that it is suspicious
that the number of applications increased exponentially when the deadline to register for the election ended last night, and mentioned the case of an applicant who on social networks said that he registered without having a professional ID.
