The next president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, said that the new ministers who will integrate this organ, the first elected by popular vote, are called to “be different” and ensure that in Mexico justice is “a right”.
“We must ensure that it is persistent in this approach and in this different vision of justice. If we do not do so, then it will not have been worth it. We are called to be different and guarantee that in Mexico justice is a right,” said Aguilar Ortiz in an interview with Efe.
The Mixteco lawyer will officially become on September 1 in the first president of the SCJN of indigenous origin, after having triumphed in the first judicial election of Mexico on June 1, which, he said, has a “historical” sense, but also represents a commitment to the original peoples.
“I am part of a movement in Mexico, the movement of indigenous and African -American peoples and, for a long time, we have warmed the hope of being considered in the design of the Mexican State,” he said.
The 52 -year -old jurist, with experience in various related positions, above all, with the defense of indigenous peoples, stressed that his candidacy was “presented as an indigenous candidacy”, who endorsed indigenous peoples and leaderships, which also gave essence to his idea of doing a justice system close to the people.
“This implies that judges, magistrates and ministers do not conceive themselves as unattainable beings, as people who are in the dome and that their function implies a departure, an isolation of society,” he said.
In that sense, he pointed out that judicial reform is a “unique opportunity” to transform the Mexican justice system because of not achieving changes, “it can end in 1 or 2 years”, if things are still doing “as always.”
“If we do not travel to this way of seeing justice, what Mexican society has done will not have been worth it,” he emphasized.
Bring justice closer to the people
Aguilar Ortiz, who until 2024 served as the General Coordinator of Indigenous Rights of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, said that one of the main commitments is to rescue citizen confidence in the justice system.
To do this, he settled, an open, itinerant court court will be sought, which goes out to the territory to know social contexts and promotes human and comprehensive treatment.
“We are not going to wait there in the seats, seaditos, to see if the reality comes to move us or awaken our reasoning, we will be dating in the field,” he said.
Also, he said, emphasis will be placed on the human rights of historically marginalized groups such as women, native peoples, peasants and people of sexual diversity.
To do this, teams that attract relevant cases in those matters will be created. In addition, priority attention will be given to the thousands of criminal cases without sentence, especially of prisoners without proper resources or defense.
Independence and autonomy
Regarding judicial independence, Aguilar Ortiz said that it does not imply isolation, but dialogue with other powers and society, always with autonomy to make decisions.
“Independence and autonomy means that after dialogue, after having all the elements, we resolve with full autonomy. The exercise of our powers, there no one can get. No one can tell us is resolved in this or that way or at certain times. That is the attribution that the Court touches,” he said.
He stressed that he will seek that his legacy is to lay the foundations to achieve a plural, reliable and human court.
“If we once again be the same as those chosen by the Senate or those chosen by the Judicial Council, the effort will not be worth it. This is a call to all who won the election. Every day we have to get up with our minds put in what should I do to change the justice system?” He said.
With a vision of social justice, closeness and respect for diversity, the new president of the SCJN prepares to lead a fundamental change in one of the most questioned powers in the country.
“That implies changing the speech, changing the form of writing of the documents between them the resolutions, thinking not only in the court itself, not only in the law itself, but in society. What best serves society is what can bring and generate confidence that our justice system has not had so far,” he concluded.
With EFE information
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