Closed the deadline for the registration of candidates for the presidency of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) before the Human Rights and Justice Commissions of the Chamber of Senators, it was reported that 66 people did so, including María del Rosario Piedra Ibarra, who seeks to be re-elected for another five-year period at the head of the autonomous body.
Of the total number of applicants, 34 met the established legal requirements, among others Piedra Ibarra; The rest have 48 hours, counted from the first minute of yesterday, to correct the inconsistencies detected in their files.
The final list of candidates will be made public on the 21st.
In separate collective interviews, Gerardo Fernández Noroña and Adán Augusto López Hernández, presidents of the Board of Directors and the Political Coordination Board of the Upper House, respectively, both from Morena, affirmed that the current ombudsperson is within her right to aspire to the re-election.
“I think she will be one of the strong candidates, without a doubt,” said Férnández Noroña, because the “development she has had at the head of the Commission (…) seems to me to have been quite good.”
“I always speak institutionally, I reserve the personal for other spaces,” López Hernández eluded when asked if he liked Piedra Ibarra’s profile.
