With 75 in favor and 37 against, the Senate of the Republic approved the reforms to the Law of the Challenge Means System in Electoral Matters that regulate the challenge process during the elections of the judges of the Judiciary
The approved opinion establishes that the Electoral Trial will be appropriate to challenge acts and resolutions that restrict people’s right to be voted candidates for ministers, magistrates o judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation in the respective electoral process.
Furthermore, only people who prove their legal interest as candidates for ministers, magistrates or judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation may promote Electoral Trial.
It establishes that “when the election of ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, magistrates of the Superior Chamber and the Judicial Disciplinary Court, must be promoted no later than four days after the General Council of the Institute makes the declaration of results corresponding”.
Furthermore, they will be Chambers of the Electoral Court, in their respective jurisdictions, will be competent to hear this appeal. “In the case of matters related to the election of magistrates of the Regional Chambersl Electoral Court, The Superior Chamber will be competent.”
In cases of matters related to the election of magistrates of the Superior Chamber, the Pmember of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
On Saturday, they will draw positions to renew in 2025
The Senate will draw lots next Saturday, in a public session to which the councilors of the National Electoral Institute (INE), 818 positions of circuit magistrates and district judges that will be elected in June 2025 and of which 186 do not have an incumbent due to vacancies, resignations and scheduled retirements. It will be done through a transparent ballot box and an electronic mechanism will be used to record the result.
The agreement of the Board of Directors establishes that, “the vacancies that are not included in the list of positions drawn to go to popular election, will be integrated through a second act of insaculation, proceeding to subtract the determined number of positions from said list, to compensate the proportion of 50% of the total.”
To do this, “a random and systematic selection will be carried out in order to replace a position drawn for each vacancy that arises from the other list.”
He explains that the entire insaculation procedure will be repeated for each judicial circuit in the country, following the order established by the Judicial Branch of the Federation.
According to information from the Federal Judiciary Council, in the country there are 32 judicial circuits made up of 426 courts, 17 auxiliary courts, 260 collegiate circuit courts, 10 collegiate auxiliary circuit courts, 39 collegiate courts of appeal, 131 federal labor courts for individual matters.
In addition, a federal labor court for collective affairs, five regional plenary sessions, 42 federal criminal justice centers and a national justice center, in total 932 judicial precincts.
The agreement states that 50% of the positions will be made up of the number of vacant (resignations and scheduled withdrawals) listed. /Karina Aguilar