The campaigns of the candidates for judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) pass with difficulty and obstacles -“It is a salad this matter” -, which forces to legislate in the matter, especially in the issue of financing, to improve the law and that the following judicial elections leave better, he said, he said Eduardo Huchim May.
“There would be a need to legislate and in some way thinking about how to finance the campaigns at least partially. Perhaps taking it from the resources that are destined for political parties, for example, because there are parties, not all but there are them, that They are clearly left over money.
“Something will have to be done so that it is not obliged, the participation is not discouraged because it is the candidates who have to finance everything, especially in the campaigns that have to be of national projection because it is voted throughout the country for them, such as the ministers and magistrates of the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF), to give an example.
“We would have to perfect not only that, but also the limitations and of course also put dikes to the excesses that it seems to be committed, precisely because there is not enough legislation to give a channel to these campaigns.”
In an interview with The economisthe former councilor of the Electoral Institute of the Federal Districttoday from Mexico City, where he presided over the Supervisory Commission, commented that in the campaigns of the ongoing judicial election “what was expected in terms of the difficulty in carrying them out to achieve the objective of the campaigns, which is to publicize the candidates ”.
“That, because of the restriction that exists to use, say, certain elements that are common in other political campaigns because there is no financial support, public financing, in such a way that the candidate has to risk spending a good part of his assets before an uncertain destination.”
The non -presence of political parties in judicial campaigns, a decision that judged correct, “is also a problem for participants because they do not only financing, but also the financing, but also The partisan structure to be able to make themselves known. Those are the obstacles that I see for the realization of the campaigns, “he explained.
In addition, since there are no precedents on how judicial campaigns should be carried out, he said, it is easy to incur violations of regulations; “Yes there has been an INE effort to make it known, but I have the impression that it has not been enough, nor clear enough, among other things for the times.”
Clear advantage
“There is no enough opportunity for information to permeate. And, of course, those who have an exit advantage are the (three) ministers and the magistrates that are being presented or the public figures that were in the past either because they were in the Judiciary or in the Attorney General’s Office, today the Prosecutor’s Office; They have a clear advantage over others. ”
From his perspective, the judicial election “is being insufficiently monitored, among other things for lack of resources of the INE` `to do so, and“ it seems that there are magistrates, judges, officials of the Judiciary and other areas not exclusively the judicial one, which are using something that cannot be allowed: the human resources of their environment. Many times the personnel under their command to do the campaigns. ”
“So, this issue of campaigns is a salad, which is of course explainable because it is a novel process and because also the truth is that the legislative part was made so quickly that there was no time to properly develop all aspects of an unprecedented process in the country ”.
The specialist urged that the powers of the Union – executive, legislative and judicial – redouble efforts to inform the election To be held on June 1.
“They have to redouble efforts; first, for the electorate to be informed, and to encourage him, stimulate him to persuade him that he goes to the polls because it is an important choice. They have to be careful and do it soon because time is elapssing. ”
When considering that “we must not let naivety predominate,” suggested to monitor the participation of political parties in the judicial election.
“Of course, the parties, all, will try to influence the election; that is expressly prohibited and the INE and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the field of electoral crimes (FIES) of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), very little useful throughout history, it has to be very attentive to that possible violation of the normativity of the judicial process. Even, the parties could participate in the propaganda of the candidates and do not do so. The parties are not authorized to promote the choice. ”
