President Claudia Sheinbaum asked this Wednesday the National Electoral Institute (INE) to define “as soon as possible” the rules of the first popular election of the Judiciary, which will be next June 1.
“It is very important that the INE, as soon as possible, say what the rules are. “What can a political party do?” said the president during her morning press conference.
Sheinbaum stressed that it is important to issue “clear rules” regarding the judicial election, as he assured that until now it is not clear if any political party can call for a candidate to participate “or simulate through a civil association that they are against of one or the other.”
“Let the clear rules of the election be issued. Now that the committees have finished electing the Legislative (Power), the Executive and the Judicial Branch on January 31, they will already have who will participate and from there the INE can announce in advance who the candidates are or candidates,” he said.
He recalled that currently these elections are going through a selection period and now, at least in the Executive Branch committee, the interviews of those candidates who passed a “first filter” are already underway and from that they will decide who will compete in the elections.
Given this, he also called on the Judiciary to speed up the process and allow those who have already registered to stay in the race to become candidates.
“The call is for them to continue with their commission. Now they will make their decision, but it is very important that people continue to participate,” he said.
Sheinbaum’s statements occur amid alerts from the Mexican opposition that there is still no clarity on what the ballots will be like, the distribution of electoral districts to define which areas will vote for which courts, and other regulations related to campaigns.
Furthermore, they occur while controversy is growing because Mexico is heading this year for its first election at the polls of judges, magistrates, the Supreme Court, the Electoral Tribunal and the new Judicial Disciplinary Court after the constitutional reform of the Judiciary was enacted on Last September 15.
The advisors of the INE, an autonomous body, have warned of risks in the elections because they obtained less than half of the 13,000 million pesos (636 million dollars) budget they requested, just 6,219 million pesos (about 304 million dollars) .
With information from EFE
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