Powers appoint members of their evaluation committees for judicial election

The president Sheinbaum sent his proposals through an agreement. Among them is the former president of the Supreme Court, Arturo Zaldívar. The other members are Mary Cruz Cortés Ornelas, Javier Quijano Baz, Vanessa Romero Rocha and Isabel Inés Romero Cruz.

To evaluate the profiles, the president appointed five jurists who have stood out in different branches of law in different states of the Republic. “For their selection, their background of professionalism and honesty was primarily taken into account, which guarantees objectivity and impartiality in the delicate process entrusted to them,” says the agreement released by the Legal Department.

On the part of the legislatorsMaday Merino Damián, Maribel Concepción Méndez De Lara, Ana Patricia Briseño Torres, Andrés Norberto García Repper Favila and María Gabriela Sánchez García were approved.

The president of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, asked the five members of the Committee that the candidates must be people “with a social sense” and that they also comply with the requirements established by law for the Judiciary.

“What we want is for the conditions in the division of justice to change and for the men who head the courts, the tribunals, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to be people who have social sense. We believe that it is something that you should not lose sight of in your work when you analyze the profiles,” he said.

For its part, the plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) He appointed Mónica González Contró, Judge Ema Meza Fonseca, Emilia Molina de la Puente, as well as Wilfrido Castañón León and Luis Enrique Pereda Trejo.

The decision was made with reservations, since the ministers have pending the analysis and definition of whether the judicial reform that orders judges, magistrates and ministers to be elected at the polls is constitutional or not.