Fabiola Martínez and Lilian Hernández
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, p. 6
The next judges, who will be elected on June 1, must be people free of any accusation of gender violence, said Carla Humphrey, advisor to the National Electoral Institute (INE), when talking about how serious it would be if these candidates become judges who issue sentences without a gender perspective.
And sorry, I know that we may or may not like the election of the Judiciary, but as an institute we have to organize it and here it will be very important that the judging people are not violent people
he warned.
He pointed out in this regard that, despite the constitutional rule on the matter, identified as 8 out of 8, it is only appropriate to deny a candidacy when the indicated person has had a final sentence in violence.
The above, she said, minimizes the scope of these measures, “in a country with 92 percent impunity, what woman has a firm sentence to say: ‘here is the sentence, please do not register that candidate?’
We are still very square in how we view the protection of women’s rights. We do not see that the right to life, liberty, integrity, security must be considered and that the principle of presumption of innocence clearly exists, but it is not absolute; No principle, no right is absolute and this is how it must be analyzed to give channel to the 8 of 8 against violence
he explained.
In the last process, the INE detected three people who made false statements, because they said that they had not violated women and it turned out that they had, but the Electoral Court restored those candidacies to them.
During the book presentation Political violence against women based on gender in Mexicoby Serena Eréndira Serrano, Counselor Humphrey spoke of the importance of analyzing the profiles of those who aspire to be judges, magistrates and ministers, especially in the face of alleged cases of abusers.
There is no excuse or place for passivity in the face of violence against women, from any institutional actor, citizenry or even the private sector.
he stressed during the International Book Fair in Guadalajara.
When referring to the fight for parity, he recalled that in Mexico there are currently 13 women governors, but at the same time there are delays in the parties giving women equal time on their radio and television spots, part of their prerogatives or financing public, with respect to men.
