The Patronal Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) will deploy at least 215 citizen observers in the country to monitor the unprecedented judicial election of June 1.
The business organization described the process as “opaque, improvised and manipulated”, and warned that this election, instead of strengthening the judicial system, “was designed to control the judiciary.”
Coparmex argued that judicial reform does not guarantee independence or certainty, and pointed out that it is “a structural alteration to the functioning of the rule of law.”
“From Coparmex we affirm clearly: this judicial election does not meet the requirements of a true reform. It does not guarantee independence, or professionalization or certainty. On the contrary, it opens the door to the capture of the Judiciary and generates economic and legal uncertainty for the entire country,” he said in a document published yesterday.
The employer dome said that in that context, citizen observation is the last dike in the face of what it considered as a “weakening of justice.”
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He explained that the deployment of observers includes people “registered and formally trained before the National Electoral Institute”, and will cover 60.6% of the federal electoral districts, which represents “more than 65% of the national territory”.
The organization indicated that it has given special attention to entities such as Veracruz and Durango, where simultaneous judicial processes are celebrated without “guarantees of order or clarity”, which in its opinion generates “confusion in the electorate and opens the door to multiple forms of political manipulation.”
He also warned that, unlike previous elections, the number of applications to observe the judicial election shot more than 316,000, but only 139,538 were accredited and more than 48,000 were rejected for being linked to parties, social programs or candidacies.
Coparmex accused that many candidates do not meet the necessary requirements to impart justice, and that campaigns have resorted to populist strategies, far from the technical evaluation.
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Finally, Coparmex called on society to assume the role of counterweight to what it considers a failed institutional process:
“We reaffirm that legality is not voted, defends itself. Impartiality is not negotiated, it is protected. Defending the Judiciary is to defend democracy, the economy and future of Mexico.”
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