During the discussion, three reservations to the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures were approved.
The main reservation endorsed was to withdraw the right to veto candidates for judges that had been granted to the powers of the Union; This was after President Claudia Sheinbaum asked the Morenistas to eliminate it.
For its part, the opposition rejected the reforms, arguing that they are discussed when there are suspensions to stop the extraordinary election process to elect judges. In addition, they considered that Morena will have control to choose the candidates.
Senator Alejandra Barrales claimed that they were only given 28 hours to read and analyze the initiatives, which is why she considered that this process is “hasty and rushed.” He also criticized that the Evaluation Committees, which will put together the lists of candidates for judges, are not given tools.
“We have expressed our concern about the way in which the Evaluation Committees are being established: it is a lax, open form that does not give tools to evaluators to be able to guarantee the best profiles as judges,” declared the Emecist.
During the session, the president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, recognized Morena’s coordinator in the Senate, Adán Augusto López, for having managed to get the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF) to deliver the information to issue the call for the election of judges in 2025.
“Before announcing the terms, honor to whom honor is due, I want, from here, to congratulate comrade Adán Augusto López Hernández, yesterday’s decision of the Judiciary Council is a triumph that belongs to him,” mentioned the senator. .
What are secondary laws about?
In the reform of the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures It is emphasized that the ministers of the Court, magistrates of the Superior Chamber and the regional chambers of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF), as well as the magistrates of the Judicial Disciplinary Court and judges of District courts, will be elected by direct vote.
The reform indicates that the election of the ministers of the Court, magistrates of the Electoral Court and the Disciplinary Court (new body) will be carried out at the national level. Meanwhile, the judges of the Collegiate Circuit Courts and Collegiate Courts of Appeal, as well as the judges who are members of the District Courts of the Judicial Branch of the Federation, will be elected by judicial circuit within the territorial scope.
Meanwhile, the magistrates of the Regional Chambers of the Electoral Court will be elected by multi-member constituency, according to their residence. The magistrates and judges of the Judicial Branches of the states will be elected within the geographical framework determined for this purpose by their constitutions and local laws.
The other reform is to General Law of the System of Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters, which establishes when an election of judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation is annulled.
This modification proposes that, during the electoral process for the election of judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation, the nonconformity trial will proceed to challenge the determinations of the federal electoral authorities that violate constitutional or legal norms.
It mentions that, when the election of judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation is challenged, the respective lawsuit of disagreement must be presented by the interested candidate.
