Mexico City.- Morena seeks to protect the process of electing judges, magistrates and ministers that the reform of the Judiciary brought about.
The initiative to reform the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (LEGIPE) establishes a lock to prevent challenge resources from stopping the process that must end on the first Sunday of June 2025.
“In no case will the means of challenge, constitutional or legal, produce suspensive effects on the resolution of the contested act,” reads article 496. The call for candidates for office will be issued no later than October 16 by the Senate of the Republic.
In the reform initiatives that the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, delivered today to the Senate, it is stated that they seek to build citizen confidence in the democratic mechanisms to form the Judiciary.
“That it be considered a public service of collective interest oriented towards justice, and that it cease to be perceived as a site of influence peddling, nepotism and privilege; repository of incomprehensible language and that discards any promotion for formalisms without really reviewing the background,” he explains. Article 497 provides a definition of the upcoming process: “The electoral process of the judging persons of the Judicial Branch of the Federation is the set of acts, ordered by the Constitution and this Law, carried out by the electoral authorities, the Powers of the Union, as well as citizenship, which aims at the periodic renewal of the judges who make up the Judicial Branch of the Federation.” If last week the President of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, revealed that the Federal Judiciary Council refused to provide information necessary for the issuance of the summons, LEGIPE established that, in the event that the judicial administration body does not timely send the information required by the Senate, the legislative body will integrate it with the public information it has available. “It is the right of citizens to participate on equal terms in the processes of evaluation and selection of candidates for all elected positions in the Judicial Branch of the Federation,” it is added. Each Branch of the Union will install an Evaluation Committee to issue its operating rules, and each of them will be made up of five people of recognized prestige in the legal field. The committees will conduct public interviews with the candidates they consider most suitable, in order to evaluate their technical knowledge for the performance of the position in question and their competence in the exercise of legal activity. Those who have held party leadership positions in the three years prior to the appointment may not apply. The committees will select the best evaluated profiles in a proportion of 10 for each position of minister, electoral magistrate and magistrate of the Judicial Disciplinary Court; six for each position of collegiate circuit magistrate and district judge. Once the Powers determine their agreement on the lists of finalists, they will be returned to the respective committees so that, through public insulation, they emerge as finalists: three for each position of minister, electoral magistrate and magistrate of the Judicial Disciplinary Court ; and two for the position of collegiate circuit magistrate and district judge. The National Electoral Institute will receive the lists of candidates on February 12, will monitor expenses, organize debates, and decide on the design of ballots. The General Council of the INE will assign the positions to those who have obtained the greatest number of votes. Applicants may participate simultaneously in two or more calls issued by other Powers of the Union for the same position and judicial circuit or multi-member district.
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