“Since I was eight years old I wanted to be a judge, now I will leave the position”
Iván Rodríguez Zamarripa He dreamed of being a judge since he was eight years old, two decades later he achieved it. However, he will have to leave his position in the coming months, since his place was up for grabs in the election next June.
He has been a District Judge in Durango for three years and is about to complete 18 years in the Judiciary, since since he was a law student he began working in the PJF, which in recent months has undergone profound changes due to the reforms. promoted by Morena and its allies.
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Although he has the opportunity to be a candidate to compete again to be a judge, now through direct voting, he decided not to do so, considering that this process is a “farce.”
“I have decided to decline before the place was drawn. It was not in my interest to participate in this infamous act, because it is a farce, it is a massive dismissal of judgmental people to install people related to the ruling party,” he declares.
In interview with Political Expansion, narrates the process he went through to enter the Judiciary; It stands out to work without receiving a salary to achieve a position until taking exams and tests to advance in position. Never, he emphasizes, was it because of a raffle or a popular election.
He says that in 2006, before finishing his law degree in San Luis Potosí, he entered the Judiciary as a meritorious, which was something similar to being an intern, but without receiving any payment; He remained that way for five years, while his family covered his expenses. He did it to make his way in the PJF.
“I knew clearly that I had to do it if I wanted to start a judicial career. I knew it was a moment that had to happen because that was how appointments for judicial officers were made in those days,” he says.
Now that his position as District Judge in Durango is on the list for the 2025 election, he anticipates that he will not participate and that he will leave the PJF; He has not yet decided what he will do.
“I am not clear (what I will do), the only thing I am clear about now is that I will not be within the Judicial Branch of the Federation. There are colleagues who are interested in returning as secretaries of the judicial bodies, it is a lower position, it is a position that we had before being judges, but it is not in my interest to remain in the institution,” he explains.
However, he emphasizes that he will continue to defend the PJF, both in the streets and through legal channels, in the face of the judicial reforms promoted by AMLO and supported by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
“Changing the issue of exams to a question of popular vote is complicated, because those who will appear on the ballots will be chosen by the political parties.”
Iván Rodríguez Zamarripa, District Judge.
Among the issues that this judge has resolved and that have generated controversy, is to order the government of Durango, headed by the PRI, Esteban Villegas, to definitively suspend the expropriation of the land that the previous state government gave to the Duranpark company, since it determined that the current president directly affected the company.
