Andrea Becerril and Georgina Saldierna
La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, January 29, 2025, p. 4
The Senate advanced for Thursday the insaculation of the candidates for judges who registered in the extinct Evaluation Committee of the Judiciary (CEPJ), although not all of the more than a thousand participating lawyers will go to the Tómbola, since the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation He enforced candidacies of ministers with direct pass
.
The Evaluation Committee only selected 25 candidates for Togados, although it had to present 90 prospects and from there insacular to 27, which in the opinion of the president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, It is a court trap
since the draw will not be necessary in some cases and We will simply have to register them
.
Of that list of 25 that presented the evaluation committee, nine are women and will pass directly to the ballot, since five lists were required, that is, 15 people. Not so in the case of the remaining 16 men, since four are left over, which will be eliminated in the draw.
The morenista explained that he is concerned about everything that among those nine women not all should be, for their profiles, but the court helped them and directed to be candidates.
– Is it close to Minister Norma Piña? He asked.
– They are close to García Luna. That size is – he replied and did not want to specify whether the allusion was for the head of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), Marisela Morales, in the six -year term of Felipe Calderón.
In the morning, Fernández Noroña declared that it was analyzed to change from Friday to Thursday the insaculation process, and at night, the board of directors that he presides issued the agreement so that the draw is tomorrow. It is specified that only those charges in which there are more applicants of the number of duplications or lists that corresponds to be covered in the extraordinary electoral process of next June will go to the toombola.
In the latter case, the candidates could also be part of the court of judicial discipline, since there are only nine selected and eight for the two vacancies of the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation.
In the Board of Directors, it is necessary that The procedure will be continuous, public and transparent
as ordered by the TEPJF, it will be transmitted by the Congress channel and the Senate platforms and will be attended by a public notary.
The draw will be in charge of the Board of Directors and will be held in the Senate Plenary Hall. At the head of the room two polls will be placed, as well as spheres with consecutive numbers.
The president of the Political Coordination Board, Adam Augusto López Hernández, said that the Senate will fulfill the mandate of the Electoral Tribunal in a timely manner and ruled out that this leads to a crisis between the legislative and judicial powers.
