“The challenge is enormous, there is much to do,” he said. Bertha Alcalde Lujan after protesting as the new head of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City.
With 51 votes in favor, 15 against and zero abstentions, Morena y allies in local Congress They approved Bertha Alcalde as the new prosecutor, from 2025 to 2029, with the option of a second term.
Bertha Alcalde (@BerthaAlcalde) rejects that there is a conflict of interest in his assignment as a prosecutor, despite his relationship with the national leader of @PartidoMorenaMxLuisa Alcalde (@LuisaAlcalde)
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In his use of the tribune, the coordinator of the bench of the PAN, Andrés Atayde warned “a potential conflict of interest” with the appointment of the new prosecutor, due to her relationship with the national leader of Morena, Luisa Alcalde.
“The proposal that today reaches the plenary session of this Congress to exercise ownership of the National Action City Prosecutor’s Office cannot accompany it, since despite the good profile and good track record we detected a potential conflict of interest,” he mentioned.
Morena, PT, Verte Party, PRD y Movement Care (MC), voted in favor of the approval of Bertha as the new prosecutor, despite the PAN’s refusal.
Bertha Alcalde defines priorities as inspector
After protesting as prosecutor, Bertha Alcalde said she was “very happy with the opportunity” and the vote of confidence granted by deputies. In this sense, he considered “it is very important that we have citizens monitoring the work we are going to do. This has been a very transparent, very complete process… we are determined to work very hard to strengthen access to justice, that is what we are going to do over the next four years.”
🗣️ “It was a transparent process,” says Bertha Alcalde (@BerthaAlcalde) after protesting as the new Prosecutor in the CDMX Congress (@Congreso_CdMex) ⬇️
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In a statement to the media, Bertha Alcalde listed the improvement in victim care and service times, as well as the reduction of uncertainty as her priorities at the head of the Prosecutor’s Office.
“The challenge is enormous, there is a lot to do, a lot to work on… The idea is to see how we can deepen the work that has already been done, how we can provide greater access to justice,” he said.
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