Georgina Saldierna
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, p. 6
The Morena bench in the Senate made it clear that the shortlist of candidates for the ownership of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) will not be modified, despite the fact that there are calls from social organizations for Rosario Piedra to be removed , current president, and the procedure is reinstated.
Senator Óscar Cantón Zetina, president of the Constitutional Points Commission, pointed out that the shortlist goes to the plenary session of the Upper House and will be the one that decides. At this moment no one, none of the three women, is ruled out, but any of the three also has a chance of being chosen.
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The Morenista specified that in his parliamentary group there is still no consensus on who they are going to vote for. “There is no provision… it is now completely open, but we are going to have a meeting prior to the vote and there we could reach an agreement as a parliamentary faction and among the allies as well.”
He estimated that it is most likely that this issue will be brought to the plenary session today, although he recalled that it is the Senate board of directors that decides the issues to be discussed in the sessions. But this is, at least, planned for tomorrow
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The opposition has not reached an agreement on the candidate for whom it will vote, but what it has pointed out is that it is not in favor of Rosario Piedra repeating, because in its opinion she did not comply with the obligation to defend human rights. .
Criticism has cascaded since her interest in being re-elected as ombudsperson. The most recent has to do with the presentation before the Senate committees that approved the short list of an apocryphal letter attributed to Bishop Raúl Vera in support of his intention to remain in office.
