▲ Magistrate Mónica Soto will be in charge of the Electoral Court until October, and in November Gilberto de Guzmán Bátiz García will replace her.Photo Luis Castillo
Of the writing
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, September 5, 2025, p. 4
After concluding the electoral process of the Judiciary, the president of the Electoral Court of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF), Mónica Soto Fregoso, said that there was a current, which was not less, that “bet on the failure” of the reform, but stressed that after overcoming this stage, “today Mexico fully has a democracy that is in a standard well above other countries.”
When inaugurating the National Meeting of Electoral Magistrates, Soto, who will preside over the TEPJF until the end of October, indicated that before the challenge that represented the election of judges, the authorities of the branch fulfilled their work, but “not everyone sought the success of the process,” he said.
“I want to say it openly: there was a part, and it was not less, where the failure of constitutional reform was bet; a strong current that bet on failure.” However, he stressed that there was also a sector that played to bring the process to fruition.
“We openly said that we were going to do everything possible to ensure that, of course, the current constitutional mandate was present and fulfilled, and it is time to celebrate that this goal has been achieved.”
During the act, which was attended by the magistrates who recently paid protest after winning in the elections last June, he explained that “you cannot call a democrat or democracy to a system where you want to cancel the vote, where pretexts are sought so that citizens do not exercise their right to decide.”
He warned that there is no time for rest, since other elections are approaching, such as those of 2027, and “critical moments are avizo; as I always say, we must be well prepared, as always, at the height of the present and future challenges.” Given this, he called to advance without losing his way.
For his part, the electoral magistrate Gilberto de Guzmán Bátiz García, who as of November will be president of the TEPJF, said that although the members of the Superior Chamber were not chosen in the same way, since two arrive after the judicial elections and the rest arrived with the previous mechanism, all are added “to this new system that will give us the opportunity to continue building democracy”.
Meanwhile, Judge Claudia Valle Aguilasocho, who also arrives with the popular suffrage, said that everyone shares the same school and the same vocation to “serve justice.”
