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Judicial Elections a Setback for Justice in Mexico, Judges Say
- Mexico held an unprecedented vote on June 1, 2025, to elect nearly 2,600 judges including Supreme Court justices nationwide.
- This election resulted from a constitutional reform passed by MORENA's congressional supermajority in late 2024 to remake judicial selection.
- The vote featured low turnout near 13%, widespread confusion, partisan cheat sheets, and candidates often linked to the ruling party MORENA.
- President Sheinbaum called the event a peaceful and inexpensive success offering free citizen participation, while critics warned it undermined impartial justice.
- This election risks politicizing courts, weakening separation of powers, and concentrating judicial power in MORENA's hands, with a new court due to convene in September.
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On June 1, the election by popular vote of 9 ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, 2 magistrates of the High Chamber and 15 magistrates of the Regional Chambers of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation, 5 judges of the Judicial Disciplinary Court, 464 judges of Circuit and 286 holders of District Courts, in addition to thousands of positions in the local judiciary in 19 states, is a process that has been hi…
Mexican Government Loyalists Sweep First Universal Judiciary Election » The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Mexico held elections for its judiciary at every level on June 1. These, the first such elections since reforms making the judiciary elected were passed last fall, saw a sweep by Mexico’s dominant party. The political party Morena, or the National Regeneration Movement, has swept Mexican elections consistently since 2018, when its founder, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was elected president on a left-wing platform. López Obrador and his successor…
Justice on the Ballot? Mexico’s Controversial Judicial Elections
On 1 June 2025 Mexico held a historic and unprecedented vote to elect judges, from local magistrates up to Supreme Court justices. Nearly 2,600 positions were at stake: nine seats on the Supreme Court, specialist tribunals and hundreds of lower judgeships. The governing MORENA party, led by Claudia Sheinbaum and rooted in the movement of […] The post Justice on the Ballot? Mexico’s Controversial Judicial Elections appeared first on Modern Diplom…
Mexico City.- Once it was confirmed that the results did not favor them, some candidates to the Judiciary claimed that it was not a "clean" contest, because they competed with Morena's structures and the deed. There are those who warned that they will turn to the Electoral Tribunal, not to reverse victories, but to punish illegal interference, and others assured that they will monitor the performance of the winners. "We had a choice of structure…
Judicial Elections a Setback for Justice in Mexico, Judges Say - The Thinking Conservative
The judicial elections recently held in Mexico constitute a setback in the administration of justice in Mexico, according to judges and magistrates. The post Judicial Elections a Setback for Justice in Mexico, Judges Say appeared first on The Thinking Conservative.
Judicial Elections a Setback for Justice in Mexico, Judges Say
The judicial elections recently held in Mexico constitute a setback in the administration of justice in Mexico, according to several judges and magistrates. “In all democracies, in all modern states, there is always a balance of power. There is always a system of checks and balances, and when the government, the executive branch, issues an authoritarian act, the judiciary must stop it,” Guanajuato District Judge Ulises Fuentes Rodriguez told The…
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