JUFED alert about criminal infiltration in the process to choose judges

The National Association of Circles Judges and Provincial Judges Judicial branch The Federation (JUFED) expressed a firm condemnation after statements Senator Gerardo Fernandez Noronia, Those who publicly realized that among the proposed features, they are elected as judges, claiming that people are associated with Balance.

the decorated These statements have been considered a confirmation of the warnings that have been expressed for months: the judicial reform that the federal government promotes a direct threat to the independence of the judiciary, as well as human rights and the rule of law in Mexico.

According to the association, the popular election model for judges and judges, away from the democratic character, would facilitate the participation of the judicial apparatus of political, economic and criminal interests, which would endanger itself and independence.

Jovid said in a statement, “What we have indicated from the beginning today is recognized by the Senate itself: This reform does not seek to strengthen justice, but rather to bring it to interests outside the legitimacy,” Jovid said in a statement.

The agency remembered that its location is supported by international votes.

“Judicial independence cannot be subject to politically handling electoral processes,” said Margaret Satretoute, a special relationship for the United Nations on the independence of judges and lawyers.

In the same manner, the Human Rights Committee among Americans warned that “the judicial elections without clear criteria for integrity and entitlement are a democratic decline.”

Ken Salazar, then the American ambassador to Mexico, expressed his concern, and warned that the election of direct voting judges would open the doors to increase infiltration from the organized crime in the Mexican judicial system.

JUFED brought its complaints to international forums such as the European Parliament and the United Nations in Geneva and the International Organization for Workers and Different Academy and Civil organizations in the United States, with a warning of the negative impact that this reform can have on Mexican democracy. “Mexico passes a decisive moment,” the agency confirmed.

The rule of law is under threat. We do not face a democratic exercise, but given the true risk of achieving justice for those who seek to manipulate it for their own goals.

Finally, JUFED has an urgent invitation to the international community and human rights to maintain attention to this reform and its effects.

He concluded by saying that there is still time to prevent justice in Mexico through interests that contradict legitimacy. “

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