The president of the Senate, Laura Itzel Castillo, confirmed the final list of three candidates to head the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), which includes the current head of the agency’s office, Ernestina Godoy.
Also on the list sent today by President Claudia Sheinbaum are Luz María Zarza Delgado, former candidate for minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), and Maribel Bojorges Beltrán, general coordinator of territorial investigation in the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office.
Previously, in his daily press conference, Sheinbaum indicated that he decided to send the final shortlist composed only of candidates “because it is time for women.”
The day before, the Senate approved a list with 10 candidates – five women and five men -, selected from the 43 applications for the position received between last Friday and Sunday.
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From these 10 profiles, Sheinbaum selected a shortlist of women from whom the Legislature must vote to elect the new attorney general.
Among the finalists, Godoy, former legal advisor of Sheinbaum, stands out, a position from which she resigned to assume interim ownership of the FGR, after the resignation of Alejandro Gertz Manero, last Thursday.
From her first day as head of the office, on Friday, Godoy began to make changes in strategic areas of the entity such as the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), where she appointed Héctor Elizalde Mora and César Oliveros Aparicio to command, respectively.
Godoy was also prosecutor of Mexico City, from 2018 to 2024, when Sheinbaum was head of Government of the capital (2018-2023).
The replacement in the FGR comes after Gertz Manero’s announcement of his retirement from office, after Sheinbaum offered him the ownership of an embassy of a “friendly country”, still without specifying which one.
Gertz Manero took over as attorney general in January 2019 and was scheduled to remain in office until January 2028.
With information from EFE
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