And that didn’t explain the Judicial tombola. The controversy about the election of judges, ministers and magistrates spread internationally, in this case, to the Harvard Law School.
The video circulates on social networks of the moment in which Minister Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena explains what the reform of the Judiciary recently approved in Mexico.
Upon hearing it, the panel attendees They laugh or smile at the minister’s words about the requirements to be a judge.
Ortiz Mena lists requirements such as a 9 average and presenting at least 5 letters of recommendation.
Minister Ortiz Mena recently attended a panel of judges at Harvard. When he mentioned the so-called judicial reform and the requirements to be a judge, both the panel and the entire audience burst into laughter. That’s what we are becoming: an international mockery.… pic.twitter.com/NESZfOQfzC
— Isidro Muñoz (@IsidroMZ) October 22, 2024
It is at that moment when you hear the laughter from both panelists and attendees in the forum.
“If you have those requirements, you can aspire to the Supreme Court if you win an election,” added the minister, who despite the laughter and mocking gestures, continued with the presentation.
What has happened to the controversy over the reform of the Judiciary?
A few days ago the Judge Nancy Juárez, of the Nineteenth District Court in Veracruz, ordered the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum to lower the publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) of the reform of the Judicial Branch.
Given this order, President Sheinbaum explained that there are no irregularities in the reform and that the publication will not be eliminated.
Meanwhile, Nancy Juarez He assured in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva that if the Government does not comply with said suspension, the rule of law would be violated and The country would live in anarchy.
In addition, Sheinbaum assured that he will file a complaint against the judge and assured that “it is overreaching.”
The president assured that the reform of the Judicial Branchso days before the tombola judicial in the Senate to define the positions to be renewed in 2025 and 2027.
Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Secretary of the Interior, explained that as a result of the raffle on June 1, 2025, 850 judicial positions will be elected, including 464 magistrates and 386 federal courts.
