Will the Court resolve the issue of the debtors to the SAT in the extra session?, Ironiza Sheinbaum

Emir Olivares and Néstor Jiménez

La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, August 14, 2025, p. 5

“We should ask: why do they want an extraordinary session? Maybe a person’s taxes (Ricardo Salinas Pliego) that President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will solve before the decision of the outgoing ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) – a call of the Minister President Norma Piña – to call a last extraordinary session before. next.

In the morning of the town in the National Palace, the chief of the Executive caught the attention for that determination of the highest court and, he remarked, that “the truth is that they already leave.”

The arrival of the ministers chosen in the judicial elections, he said, will bring “fresh air.”

A question about the subject, the president urged the current ministers to explain why an extraordinary meeting was convened on August 19, with possible extension to 28, to resolve electoral issues.

“Let them say: why are they calling an extraordinary meeting? Because yesterday (Tuesday) was the last session of the court of the past, we will say (…) What?

The federal president criticized that the highest court has called that extraordinary session. “What is the point of?”

He summoned the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation to resolve the pending issues around the judicial election and not wait until September 1, which will take possession of the new ministers.

“There is, according to the Constitution, a single way in which the Court can intervene, which is for the (applicants) who participated in the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court; because finally the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court could not decide on itself, supposedly,” he said before a possible intervention of the SCJN.

Around the budget of budget by 2026 of that body – approved in a private session on Tuesday by the ministers – affirmed that there is no reason for new ministers not to review it, but clarified that they will no longer gain more than the president.

This draft contemplates a global increase of 12.7 percent compared to 2025, equivalent to 5,869 million 743 thousand 404 pesos. The document, presented to the ministers just last Friday, will be sent to Congress for final approval.

“They authorized a very high budget, but hey, the new Court is coming. Fresh air reaches the Judiciary. They can review it again (that budget project), they do not have to not review it,” the chief of the Executive closed.