Mexico City.- Because the suspension of activities decreed by the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF) ended on Wednesday and it has not decided to extend it again, the courts and tribunals issued on their own the agreements to extend the strike in the judicial headquarters.
In its session yesterday, the Plenary of the CJF did not rule on whether or not it should validate the vote of judges and magistrates, who last Monday voted in their majority to maintain their protest against the judicial reform.
The National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges (JUFED) informed the CJF of the results of the vote until Wednesday morning, which is why it was no longer possible for the issue to be included in the Plenary agenda. Although in theory legal deadlines could run again in all files, given the vacuum caused by the lack of a statement from the CJF, the coordinators of the district and circuit courts decided to extend the suspension of activities and terms on their own.
For example, the six coordinators of the 63 courts and tribunals of the San Lázaro Palace of Justice issued a notice of the continuation of the strike for an indefinite period.
“Due to force majeure – peaceful demonstration by the workers and heads of the jurisdictional bodies, with total closure of the building -, and with the purpose of safeguarding the rights of the governed, it is declared non-working as of today 3 October 2024 and the remaining days, until work is resumed,” says the letter signed by judges Juan Alfonso Patiño Chávez and Iliana Fabricia Contreras Perales, as well as four other judges. In the same sense, Judge José Rogelio Alanís García and Judge Ruby Celia Castellanos Barradas, coordinator of the 10 Collegiate Courts and the 16 District Courts in Criminal Matters, respectively, issued an agreement. On Wednesday night José Alfonso Montalvo Martínez, CJF advisor, said in front of hundreds of workers who demonstrated outside the Judiciary headquarters, that no later than this Friday the Council would vote in an extraordinary session whether or not to extend the strike. . For now, even without the decision of the CJF, practically all of the jurisdictional bodies continue to suspend work, attending only to cases considered urgent.
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