President Claudia Sheinbaum regretted this Monday that there are more than 13,000 judicial cases still unaddressed due to the strike of justice workers, who are protesting against the entry into force of the constitutional reform that will establish the popular election of judges.
“It is something relevant, there are more than 13,000 cases that are stopped,” the Mexican president protested during her morning conference, when responding to the announcement that judges and magistrates will offer a daily media intervention, coinciding with the president’s ‘morning’, to comment on your position regarding the controversial judicial reform already approved.
Sheinbaum questioned the fact that judicial workers continued to receive their salaries despite having been on strike since the end of August of this year, shortly before the constitutional modification was finally approved.
“It would be worth knowing why they are unemployed and continue to receive their salaries (…) if they are unemployed, why do they continue to receive salaries?”, insisted the president.
Furthermore, Sheinbaum questioned the fact that judicial appeals against the reform have been accepted when supposedly these same workers are not attending to thousands of cases because they are on strike.
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Sheinbaum accepted the right of judges and magistrates to hold their conferences within the framework of freedom of expression
“Why are some cases treated and others not (…) When a worker goes on strike, in accordance with the Federal Labor Law, they do not receive their salaries, then it would be very good if they responded to the people of Mexico, because they receive a salary from the taxes of Mexican men and women,” he stated.
The president, however, accepted the right of judges and magistrates to hold their announced conferences within the framework of freedom of expression.
“The magistrate judges, ministers, I understand that they are not happy that their spaces are now going to be decided by the people of Mexico,” said Sheinbaum, who, however, said he did not understand the protests of the rest of the judicial workers whose positions and salaries They will be respected with the reform.
The judicial reform, a dream of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), was finally approved last September after being ratified in both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate and it will be in June 2025 when the first popular election of judges and magistrates in Mexico.
With information from EFE.
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