MEXICO CITY (EFE) .- At least eight entities in the country present high levels of ‘political-critical’ violence for the next judicial elections of June 1, according to the Mexico Evalua organization.
The organization emphasized the urgency of acting, since the campaigns are scheduled to start on March 30, since it warned that without an effective strategy, the elections “could become a new episode of violence and impunity in these states.”
Entities with high risk levels are Baja California with a “very high risk”, followed by Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Quintana Roo, Michoacán and Colima.
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However, there are also seven other regions that the organization considered “medium risk”, such as Sonora, Nayarit, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, State of Mexico, Mexico City and Tlaxcala.
In contrast only four entities show a “low risk”: Coahuila, Durango, Aguascalientes and Yucatán.
The NGO highlighted in a report that, for the first time in the history of the country, elections will be held to occupy various positions in the Federal Judiciary.
In this sense, he warned that evidence suggests that organized crime “could try to influence these processes to consolidate their territorial and political control.”
The 2024 elections were classified as the most violent in recent history, with more than 550 registered victims, according to data from Civic Data and Mexico evaluates.
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This background increases concern about the possible repetition of similar scenarios in the coming judicial elections.
Ask to prioritize protection in high -risk regions
Mexico evaluates proposed to implement a hyperfocalized security approach to mitigate these risks.
This implies prioritizing protection in high -risk regions, providing security to vulnerable candidacies and using corporations with less degree of criminal infiltration.
Political-critical violence has become a frequent mechanism through which factual powers, including organized crime, seek to impose their interests on local electoral processes.
“The importance of having a judiciary at the service of the rule of law and citizenship, and not of factual powers, should be sufficient reason for the authority to consider this document as a contribution of intelligence to offer security conditions to the candidates,” reads the document.
The report stressed that avoiding the interference of organized crime in electoral processes requires a deep transformation of the rule of law.
This includes the formation of professional and responsible political institutions, greater effectiveness of security and justice institutions, and shared well -being that reduces the conditions that allow criminal infiltration in politics.
The international community and national authorities observe carefully the development of these processes, aware that the integrity of judicial elections is essential for democratic consolidation and the strengthening of the rule of law in Mexico.
The campaigns begin this Sunday for the first popular election of the Judiciary in Mexico, where on June 1 a record of 100.4 million voters will be able to choose from more than 4,000 candidates for the Supreme Court, the Electoral Court, the new court of judicial discipline and thousands of judges and magistrates.
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