Almost a month after the elections of 1is June who renewed half of the judges, magistrates and ministers of the Supreme Court of Mexico, the controversies accumulate around this unprecedented exercise at the international level. Critics accuse the government of the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, of intervening to promote the election of her candidates and some of the elected judges, especially at the local level. Among them, one of the lawyers for the famous drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman, aka “El Chapo”, a judge currently imprisoned for rape on a minor and a former immigration services officer accused of leading a prostitution network.
Mme Sheinbaum and the executives of her party, Morena, had nevertheless promised that the election of the judges would propel Mexico to the rank of “The most democratic country in the world” And would make it possible to extract the corruption of the federal judicial system by choosing judges close to the people and respecting a strict women-men. Since the ballot of 1is June, they repeat that the election was a “Total success”marked by the arrival at the presidency of the Supreme Court of a native lawyer, Hugo Aguilar Ortiz. The sound of bell is radically different on the side of detractors, for whom the government organized distorted elections in advance to seize the judicial system.
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