President Claudia Sheinbaum disqualified the preliminary report of the observers of the Organization of American States (OAS) on the judicial election in Mexico, which took place on June 1 and pointed out that it is not within the functions of the agency “Give Recommendations.”
“It is not within its functions to give recommendations of how a country must decide its judiciary,” said Sheinbaum.
“The Organization of American States sent some observers to Mexico on the day of the election, and well, they think if it was peaceful, if there were no problems,” said the president.
“But now they want to comment on the system that Mexicans decided to choose the members of the Court, the magistrates and the judges, they have no attribution for it, that the OAS thinks how the election was developed, but that is kept (their recommendations) (…),” he added.
Shienbaum recalled that OAS itself points in its statutes that it cannot comment on the sovereignty that peoples and nations have decided.
The president expressed himself in the same sense in which he did the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) of Mexico previously, which through the permanent mission of Mexico before the OAS, expressed on Saturday his “firm rejection” to the recommendations contained in the preliminary report of the observers by ensuring that “he exceeded his mandate”.
In a diplomatic note addressed to the Secretary General of the OAS, the Surinames Albert Ramdin, the Mexican Foreign Ministry recorded that the electoral observation mission (MOE) “exceeded the mandate of the same and incurred actions contrary to the principles of the letter of the organization.”
In particular, the Mexican government cited, article 3 (e) that states: “Every State has the right to choose, without external interference, its political, economic and social system, and to organize in the form that suits it most.”
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The response of the Mexican government came after Friday, the MOE of the OAS recommended “not to replicate the Mexican model of popular election of judges and magistrates in other countries of the region”, after verifying multiple problems in the first process of this type in Mexico, in which only 13 % of the voters participated.
The SRE stressed that an OAS observation mission “does not have the power to try to impose its own criteria on the way in which countries, in use of their sovereignty, must form their judiciary. Even less, to issue value judgments that exceed their powers.”
And, he added that as the report itself, the organization of the electoral process and the celebration of the June 1 elections “strictly attached to the constitutional norms and electoral laws in force in Mexico.”
On Friday, in its preliminary report, the OAS mission affirmed that this model is not preceded worldwide and that far from strengthening justice, it could weaken its impartiality, independence and effectiveness.
For the next judicial elections, scheduled for 2027, the OAS warned that they could coincide with the elections throughout the country and, if the electoral calendar was not modified, the risk of partisan influences would increase.
On Sunday, June 1, the first elections of more than 880 federal judicial positions were held in Mexico, among which nine ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) were elected, the result of a constitutional reform of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024).
With EFE information
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