The Mexican Norma Piña was elected president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). With this appointment, she became the first woman to preside over that highest court.
In her first words as president, Piña thanked her colleagues, the other ten ministers of the SCJN plenary, for “congruence”: “I recognize the determination to break what seemed like an inaccessible glass ceiling.”
In just three rounds of voting, he got the necessary six votes.
In a country with an immense debt of justice towards its women, the most important court in Mexico will be directed by one. The lawyer has a 34-year judicial career. Since 2015 she is a member of the Supreme Court.
“As the first woman to preside over this highest court, I also represent women. I feel accompanied, supported by all of them and us. I feel very strong because I know that we are all here showing that we can. I thank those who have always believed, those who have not tired of fighting to corner our patriarchal culture, I honor those who are no longer here. We will strive every day to create a fairer, more equal society, without violence for women,” she said.
During his morning conference at the National Palace, President Manuel López Obrador maintained that “the ministers chose as established in the procedure and there was acceptance and agreement. It is an autonomous and independent power like never before.” He recalled that since the Porfiriato there was a complete submission of the SCJN, “later the same, and up to now there is autonomy. Our adversaries will never accept this, but it is the truth”.
“We do not impose anything in the Court, and it is so evident, even if they do not want to accept it, that President Norma Piña has always voted against the initiatives that we have defended. The moment we are living in is unique, no one can say that there is subordination of the powers to the executive, as it was before, for decades, the power of the powers was the Executive, the judicial and legislative powers were appendages, they were subordinate, ”she said. .
He added that “orders were given from the Presidency and that is over, that is why we are in the Fourth Transformation of the country’s public life. I am glad that this is happening in Mexico, because it is for the best, so that there is a true rule of law, not like before.”
