Ivan Evair Saldana and Gustavo Castillo
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, p. 4
Is the judiciary becoming isolated in this social dialogue?
asked yesterday the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) Margarita Ríos Farjat, recognizing that the work of the Judicial Branch has not reached the knowledge of the citizens and attributed to this situation the questioning of its role before public opinion.
While moderating table three of the International Meeting on Judicial Independence yesterday, he stated that both the Court and the Federal Judicial Council They have 100 percent transparency
although it also faces corruption problems.
“I think that the Judicial Council is lacking, and this is a self-criticism, in communicating, for example, the sanctioning processes, the statistics. It is clear that corruption exists because it is a human institution. And as I pointed out, the quality and the quality of the institutions as human will depend on the matter and the quality of society.
No one is being misled here. The point is that there are institutionalized, objective, consensual, even collegial, open and other mechanisms to prevent this from happening.
he assured.
Contrary to what ministers such as Lenia Batres claim, who point out that more than 90 percent of the matters resolved by the Court are in private sessions, Ríos Farjat mentioned that in the country’s constitutional court We have great transparency, the sessions of the Court’s plenary are even public, in the afternoon there is already the transcription of what was discussed, the sentence, the additions, everything is there.
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However, he stated that for there to be effective communication, it is known that a sender and a receiver are needed, so he also questioned whether the press is playing an effective role in communicating about the work of the PJF and whether society is open to receiving it.
