Nestor Jimenez
The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, August 23, 2024, p. 4
President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said that it is unethical
that the judges who joined the work stoppage in the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF) continue receiving their salary. He said that there are also rules for starting strikes or suspending work, and This strike they are doing is not legal
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In response to protests by members of the PJF against the reform being debated in Congress, the future president defended that with this initiative the finger pointing
from the Presidency for the appointment of ministers, which is why he insisted that this power will have greater autonomy.
I think that this issue of you going on strike as a judge, and also collecting your salary, is already unethical, right? Because they earn 150 thousand pesos; yesterday they told me it was 200 thousand. We are reviewing it.
he said yesterday at a press conference.
He said that if a survey were conducted among the population, 90 percent would support the judges not receiving their salaries while they are protesting. We have to see what the law says, who regulates public servants, because that is what they are. I think we have to make a call, because this strike they are doing is not legal.
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In her transition house, Sheinbaum called on the population to thoroughly review the opinion that the federal deputies plan to vote on. She stressed that, contrary to the arguments of the opposition, the document has changes that it’s worth it
analyze, regarding the initiative sent by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
He highlighted that after the forums, they were added public, open, transparent, inclusive and accessible mechanisms that allow the participation of all interested parties
through which each power must integrate an evaluation committee with five people recognized in the legal activity that will evaluate the candidates.
With this, in addition to requirements such as the minimum average in their academic training, they must prove technical knowledge and that have distinguished themselves by their honesty, good public reputation, competence and academic and professional background
so it would no longer be the Presidency that would make the decision.
It will be a very transparent process of reviewing resumes, of reviewing the reasons why someone wants to be a minister, magistrate, judge. And from there, from the finalists, there is still an additional process to avoid it being a finger-pointing by friends, acquaintances, of the president.
he stressed. With this mechanism, he insisted, the Judiciary has more autonomy
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He recalled that the ruling outlines the use of part of the PJF trust funds for the election of its members. These resources remain in litigation.
–And what if the issue of trusts is not resolved yet?
–No, it is in the Constitution. The Constitution is the Constitution.
Regarding the distribution of plurinominal seats, he said that in 2012, PAN, PRI and PRD, which formed the so-called Pact for Mexico, had 421 seats. Although he noted that not all of the PRD voted for reforms such as the energy reform, he insisted that together they had 84 percent of the total.
