Mexican Supreme Court remake: Ruling-party loyalists dominate the new bench
Mexico City – According to the final results published in the controversial judicial vote on Wednesday, the judicial candidates closely linked to Mexico’s ruling party swept every position of the country on the newly transformed High Court.
The nine justice in the Supreme Court has strong ties with the dominant Morena block under the presidency of President Claudia Sheinbaum, and its elections point to a radical change in Mexico’s balance of power.
Among them, Hugo Augis, a new chief justice, which will be the first lawyer of the country since the legendary Benito Juárez, who served as president more than a century ago, is a new chief justice.
The election regulators must still verify the votes, but this is seen as a formality. Supreme Court Justice is planned to start working on September 1 with 900 newly elected federal lawyers..
Mexican officials meet the results that only 13% of the appropriate voters’ supported national vote – supported by Makera on Sunday. Despite the participation of Pirtry, Sheinbaum praised the election as “magnificent” and “great success .. He greeted the change of the entire federal judiciary as the victory of democracy on corruption and favoritism.
The president was particularly effective in the emergence of a chief justice from Mexico’s long -term marginalized domestic communities. “This is a deep change,” he said. Domestic Mexicans, which contain approximately 10% of the population, have long been among the poorest inhabitants of the country and are often exposed to racism.
Some detectors mocked Aguilar’s desire to go to the native dress instead of traditional black robes. Sheinbaum said he supported his efforts to honor his cultural roots.
Mexico was the first country to choose all judges from the Supreme Court justice to thousands of local peace judiciary.
Many independent observers attacked exercise as the victory of politics on justice – and a potentially deadly blow to the separation of powers, an important column of democratic government.
“This is a decline for democracy in Mexico, Stephanie Brewer, who chaired the Mexican analysis department of the Washington Office in Latin America, a human rights research group. “When you concentrate on the power in all three branches of the government, you begin to erode the democratic administration.”
Sheinbaum’s Morena Party already has super majority at the Mexican Congress and dominates many states and local governments.
Coparix, a Mexican business group, announced that he detected “multiple irregularities ve in the vote and that the new judiciary could prevent investment in Mexico, the leading trade partner of the United States.
“There is no sustainable investment without independent justice, Cop Coparix said in a statement. “Mexico cannot want to progress without legal.”
In the renewed high court, nine dominates in the current Supreme Court compared to 11. The Supreme Court will also reduce the ability to challenge the congress and presidential actions.
Sheinbaum rejected most of the criticism of the election as “classism and racism ve and celebrated the rise of the choice of chief justice from the Mixtec ethnic group in the Southern Oaxaca province. He accused his rivals of pushing “hatred ..
The results are currently undergoing 6 million votes than other Supreme Court competitors, who are currently supervising the human rights affairs for the National Institute of Native Peoples. Lenia Batres Guardaarrama was the second highest in the Supreme Court vote and 5.7 million votes.
The Aguilar said that the desire for defending indigenous rights from modest origins inspired him to read law. He received great praise for his legal intelligence and his devotion to the poor.
“Hugo seems like a brilliant lawyer, Jo Hugo seems to be a brilliant lawyer. “But it cannot be criticized for idealizing it as if the new Benito Juárezmiş or – just because it is indigenous.”
Some critics accused the Aguilar of selling to gain domestic support for the controversial development projects encouraged by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, especially the Mayan train of 25 billion dollars in which some indigenous groups resisted as the destruction of environmental and indigenous communities.
Galván said, “Of course, he became the supporter and advocate of the Aguilar MORENA Government,” Galván said.
Among the other leading candidates in voting for the seats in the Supreme Court, there are three seating justice, the mentor of Sheinbaum, appointed by López Obrador, who founded Morena. These three: Batres, Yasim Esquivel and Loretta Ortiz. According to the law, the new court will consist of five women and four men.
For many years, López Obrador has fought with a series of high courts of the country, in particular the plan to overcome the country’s election system. He approached the end of his six -year period and defended the controversial reform that led to the judicial revision of Sunday.
Special reporter Cecilia Sánchez contributed to Vidal.
