2024-08-02 11:57:36
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He charged twice against the INE and the Judicial, by suggesting that the second trusts pay for the elections of judges, in case the so-called advance “Plan C”.
This Wednesday, when asked for his opinion on the statements of Guadalupe Taddei, President of the National Electoral Institute (INE) that the cost of an exercise such as the one proposed in the reform to the Judicial Branch would cost almost as much as a choice President, the president ironically said about it and offered “the remedy and the rag”: “Well, I’m going to give them the remedy and the rag, that the Judicial Power contribute half of what they have saved (to finance the election of its members). Let them help if it is a reform to improve the Judicial Branch. They have saved as 20 billion pesosOf course it is enough, even with less than half. That is where the money is.”
He even took the opportunity to criticize the fact that the Judiciary is returning from “vacation” until Thursday, and that has pending several “little issues”, such as the payment of taxes by some large taxpayers, which has not been done, according to his statement, for the braids within said Power:
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“Imagine how much is not collected for the braids In the Judiciary, we only have 13 cases there, which take an average of 150 days, the average is almost half a year, and does not solve judges, magistrates and ministers.”
For this reason he insisted that the election of those who administer justice must be a priority matter, with a view to having it resolved in the first quarter of 2025:
“Elections can be called for next year and progress is already being made and that will help a lot and not everything is rotten, there are judges and magistrates and ministers, that sean incorruptible that they be independents who seek to impart justice, that they participate as candidates, we already hoped yesterday that no one would be disqualified but that it is the people who decide.”
Yesterday, after participating in the session of the National Dialogues on Judicial Reform held in the Chamber of Deputies, Taddei Zavala She was questioned about the election of judges and ministers, and considered that the sections and number of voters would be taken as a basis to start the calculations:
– “Could it cost the same as a presidential election?” he was asked.
– “More or less like a presidential election, depending on the number of positions to be elected. Added to this is the whole operational part, field organization,” he said.
On hold, extinction of trusts
Despite the president’s statements, the extinction of 13 of the 14 trusts managed by the Power of attorney She was arrested by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) on May 15 of this year.
The day after this decision, López Obrador said in his morning press conference that:
“We already knew it, it is only a matter of remembering that the ministers of the court violate the constitution Because Article 127 of the Constitution establishes that no official can earn more than what the President of the Republic earns.”
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This after, by majority vote, the Second Chamber of the Mexican Supreme Court stopped the measure implemented by President López Obrador on October 28, 2023.
That day the decree published in the came into force Official Journal of the Federationwhich, through an amendment to article 224 of the Organic law of judicial power It was established that the resources from the extinct trusts of the PJF will be delivered to the Treasury of the Federation and will be allocated by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) to “programs that allow compliance with the National Development Plan.”
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2024-08-02 11:57:36