Mexico City.– Magistrate Felipe Fuentes affirmed that electoral authorities at all levels must be prepared for the accelerated pace they seek to implement in the reform of the Judicial Branch.
During a meeting with electoral institutes and courts, the electoral judge trusted that this year’s process, in which all entities held elections, will help face this new process.
“There are great challenges, but there have also been great advances (in electoral matters). We are moving towards greater challenges, there is a constitutional reform that tells us about the arrival of judges, in the different seats through the rotation that the citizenship at the polls,” he stated. “However, I consider that we are prepared, the electoral institutes, the electoral jurisdictional bodies, must prepare for this challenge that I consider is greater because the dynamics with which the reform was implemented takes us at an accelerated pace.”
Sources assured that in the coming weeks, national electoral authorities will have to make important decisions.
“It leads us to have to make determinations with this experience that this electoral process has left us and that will surely also lead us to reach a good outcome for the good of the people of Mexico,” he assured. Fuentes maintained that, as has happened in the last electoral processes, this one will also bring lessons. For example, he said, the one that concludes left new criteria and transparency mechanisms. For example, he boasted, for the presidential election, for the first time, a microsite was opened and the determinations of the magistrates in charge were published, without mentioning that many of the promises of transparency were not fulfilled, such as publishing the hearings.
‘We just follow the law’
Counselor Jorge Montaño, who chairs the commission of the National Electoral Institute in charge of organizing the election of the Judiciary, argued that the body is only abiding by what Congress decided.
“We are preparing for what’s next. What’s next? Electoral processes, that’s what we dedicate ourselves to. The reform (for the judicial election), which I don’t want to elaborate on, was not done by us, we are complying with an imperative of the Constituent Assembly,” he explained. “We organize elections, we hold elections, we supervise, and we do it well, very well. It is the result of their elective processes.”
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