Juarez City.- The proposal to reform the Judiciary delivered to Congress by the Executive is cause for “reservations” and “concern” among legal professionals, who question the haste with which it is intended to change the structure of the bodies in charge of the administration of justice.
According to Antonio Rivera, president of the Bar and Bar Association of this border, among the main points of disagreement is the eventual election of judges and magistrates which, he said, would leave out the benefits of a judicial career.
“Where we do have to have reservations is in the election of ministers; That does make noise because, obviously, it leaves aside the judicial career, which is important, because the judges must have the expertise, the knowledge, the study necessary for them to resolve,” said Rivera.
“And I think that the majority of lawyers do not agree (…) because it would be the most popular politician, the most popular actor, the most popular soccer player, the famous one, and it is about the justice system, it is about judging the people, about goods and rights, about freedom. It is not simple,” he added.
On February 5, the Executive Branch sent the aforementioned reform project to the Chamber of Deputies, which seeks, says the text, to incorporate into the Constitution “safeguards and democratic mechanisms that allow citizens to actively participate in the processes of election of the ministers of the SCJN (Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation), the circuit magistrates, the District judges and the magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal”, among other changes.
For lawyer Manuel Pineda, with an office on this border, this modification plan began to be a topic of conversation among professionals in his branch, especially after the June 2 election, when the party in power gained even more positions in the federal Legislative Branch.
“We see it as the worst, we are as if we did not believe it would happen. It is one thing that you can elect ministers by popular election (…) but imagine all the judges and magistrates of the federal order; Now, it is a judicial system, you have to do the same with the states, so what will this cost, in campaigns,” Pineda said.
“And you earn the merits to be a judicial official, from below, so it is not the same that someone votes, that the people vote for an official who we do not know if he has the capacity or not, no matter how much information you can verify from a resume,” he added.
Rivera also mentioned hoping that there will be a call for the different sectors of the population to know and debate the presidential proposal and, like Pineda, he considered that, if it is approved in September, it would be hasty.
“Time is very little and we will have to talk about it and give the opinion, of the associations, of the lawyers, of the representatives of the organizations, because it affects us all, because we are talking about something very serious, the administration of justice, knowledge of those who are going to be judges or ministers and magistrates, all of that impacts society,” Rivera said.
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