This Tuesday, Congress endorsed the five people who will make up the Evaluation Committee that will review the profiles of the candidates for the Judicial Branch elections in 2025.
In the Chamber of Deputies, the proposal was approved with 326 votes in favor and 102 against, and in the Senate, with 75 in favor and 40 against.
The five profiles were proposed jointly by both Chambers, where the ruling party has the majority, with which it recently endorsed the judicial reform, which establishes that the three Powers of the Union – the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial – must designate a committee to evaluate the candidacies for next June’s elections.
According to the list announced this afternoon, the Legislative Committee will be made up of Andrés Norberto García Repper Favila, who was Morena’s representative before the General Council of the Electoral Institute of Tamaulipas.
As well as Maday Merino Damián, former president advisor of the Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute of Tabasco; Ana Patricia Briseño Torres, head of the Sonoran Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (ISTAI).
In addition to Maribel Concepción Méndez de Lara, judge of the Superior Agrarian Court of Zacatecas, and María Gabriela Sánchez García, judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Sinaloa.
The president of the Senate Board of Directors, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, said that this Wednesday the five lawyers who make up the committee will take office, who will determine the eligibility and suitability of the candidates who will participate in the election of judges, magistrates and ministers.
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On the other hand, representative Kenia López Rabadán, of the PAN, who voted against the proposal, accused that there was no possibility of debate, “neutral options were blocked and people linked to the ruling regime were placed.”
“The ruling party has imposed the members of an evaluation committee in a manner, eliminating any possibility of an impartial process to choose those who will administer justice in our country,” he said.
The Legislature is the first to appoint the evaluation committee that establishes the judicial reform, amid the controversy over the resignations of Supreme Court ministers before the June 2025 elections.
With information from EFE
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