The former president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea, He officially receives a double financial benefit that exceeds 500 thousand pesos per month net due to his pension as a former minister and his current salary in the federal executive.
Specifically, 374 thousand pesos in pension for being a retired minister and 131 thousand for being the coordinator of Policy and Government of the Presidency of the Republic.
According to the portal Transparent Payrollin its most recent update as of November 30, the retired minister has a gross salary of 188 thousand 527 pesos, that is, 131 thousand 26 pesos net monthly.
While for pension for holding the position of minister for 13 years, 11 months and 15 days, the Supreme Court It plans to grant you a monthly amount of 374,600 net pesos this year.
For Gustavo López, doctor in Political Science from The New School for Social Research in New Yorkthe income from the treasury of the retired minister is an incongruity for the Fourth Transformation movement.
“It contradicts the austerity discourse that the Fourth Transformation has proposed since he was in Government, regardless of whether he has the right to receive them,” he said.
Pension cases
In interview with 24 HOURS, He pointed out that another contradiction is in the case of pensions to ministers, since since the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, these types of payments to retired ministers have been criticized, “which are much higher than what someone who retires receives.” pension through the traditional system.”
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The expert indicated that another aspect is that it is a retirement benefit from the Supreme Court, “as such it is not a pension, as established by the Issste law, but rather they are resources from the same The Power of Judgmentl”.
He reiterated that his retirement income, not being subject to the laws of the Issste and IMSS, gives him the opportunity for the federal government to hire him and to have both economic benefits, “because the Court manages his pension in its own system and “That contradicts the discourse.”
BENEFITS
In the Federal Government Payroll, Zaldívar appears with a salary only 2 thousand pesos less than that of President Sheinbaum, to which 374 thousand pesos are added for her pension, the above according to the agreement approved in a private session of the SCJN on November 21, in which the amounts of retirement benefits of 31 former ministers, 23 family members and eight acting ministers who will leave their positions on August 31, as an effect of the judicial reform, were defined.
The minister Lenia Batres The information from the private session was made transparent, including the names and monthly amounts of the pensions that the retired ministers will receive in 2025.
Arturo Zaldívar, who is a promoter of judicial reform, among whose effects the election of judges, magistrates and ministers stands out, would have monthly income from the treasury of 505 thousand net pesos corresponding to his salary as a senior official of the President of the Republic and for his lifetime pension. for his work on the Supreme Court.
In 2018, retired minister Olga Sánchez Cordero announced that she would donate her salary as Secretary of the Interior, so she would not maintain the two financial benefits and would keep her retirement assets from the Supreme Court.
“I have decided not to have two benefits, because one is a pension. Starting December 15, my salary will be donated to a home for girls and boys with disabilities, located in Querétaro,” Sánchez Cordero mentioned in 2018.
In the case of Zaldívar, he has not announced whether he would follow the example of former minister Sánchez Cordero.