Piedra Ibarra seeks reelection to “consolidate what has been achieved”

Andrea Becerril and Gustavo Castillo

La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 26, 2024, p. 6

The president of the National Human Rights Commission, Rosario Piedra Ibarra, faced disqualifications and insults from opposition legislators, when appearing before the Senate committees responsible for the process for the election of the head of that body for the next five years. .

In her initial intervention, the current ombudsperson He expressed that he does not seek to be reelected out of personal ambition, but to consolidate what has been achieved and, anticipating the criticism that later multiplied, he expressed that he with your head held high and that it was not, nor will it ever be, an instrument of personal and partisan interests.

The CNDH under my direction has shown clear commitments, without hesitation, with transformations that the majority of the people demand.. They do not forgive him, he added, that we did not issue the actions of unconstitutionality, nor the recommendations that they would have wanted, for example against the judicial reform, even though there was no legal basis to do so. We were not an instrument, nor will we ever be, of those who insist on creating agendas outside the people.

Piedra Ibarra was the last of 17 candidates for the leadership of the commission and all the previous candidates took a few minutes to meet with the members of the Senate Human Rights and Justice Commissions, but in her case it was two hours of criticism from the opponents, who made fun of him carrying written cards to respond to them.

The PAN senator Verónica Rodríguez tried to get Piedra Ibarra into trouble, by asking her what she thought about the fact that during the inauguration of President Claudia Sheinbaum, it had been brought to the general Congress session Iphigenia dyingsince, he maintained, they took her out of the hospital.

The president of the Justice Commission, Javier Corral, interrupted the PAN member and mentioned that it was disrespectful to refer to the memory of teacher Ifigenia Martínez in this way.

It was not the only time that Corral called for order, since Ricardo Anaya, senator of the PAN, maintained that her election as president of the CNDH was fraudulent and even told her that with what face he seeks re-election, despite the fact that he has rejected 99 percent of complaints against the military.

He reproached him for not yet issuing a recommendation for the events of October 1 in Chiapas, where elements of the National Guard shot at migrants and killed six.

He is not ashamed to come to ask for the vote to be reelectedmentioned the senator. The lion believes that everyone is of his conditionPiedra Ibarra revived, but accusations that he protected the Morena government and the military, rather than citizens, continued.

PRI senator Carolina Viggiano suggested that Ibarra Piedra should resign her candidacy, since, by doing so, it would do the president of the Republic good.

Rosario Piedra rejected the accusations and affirmed that she has presented recommendations for human rights violations that are substantiated and to the express question she answered that the country is not militarized because in command of the armed forces is President Sheinbaum, who is a civilian.

PJF workers demonstrate

Workers of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) demonstrated in the Senate of the Republic to demand that the president of the CNDH not be removed. Ibarra Stone It does not have the moral quality to be there, its ratification would be an attack on freedom and human rights.stated the workers, who for 65 days have carried out protests against the judicial reform and the stoppage of activities in all federal courts and tribunals.

For four hours, members of organizations such as the 32 United Circuits Coalition and the PJF worker unions chanted slogans against the ombudsperson and they pointed out that during his administration he has not attended to or issued any recommendations to authorities at the three levels of government in cases such as forced disappearances and the lack of attention to organizations of search mothers.

Re-electing Piedra Ibarra would mean that the CNDH would once again be dominated by the best friend and obscurantism would returnSo, they said that, although the workers dissatisfied with the judicial reform requested the agency’s intervention, it did nothing.