Only 13% of Mexicans came to vote their judiciary
The future of the justice of Mexico decided only 13% of Mexicans. The first popular election to choose judges, magistrates and ministers (the judges) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation stood out for a historic participation. Only 13 out of 100 voters went to the polls the day they had to decide in the hands of who will put justice in Mexico.
The president of Mexico took breast out of a historic election in which only 13 million Mexicans voted but did not hesitate to compare them with the voters who received each of the opposition matches just a year ago. “How many voted yesterday? About 13 million, one more, seems. Notice how many votes the bread had in 2024: 9.6 million. Fix how many votes the PRI had in 2024: 5.7 million. That is, for them, they vote less than those who voted for the Judiciary, because they are rightly worried,” he boasts “The Doctor” during “La Mañanera” on Monday.
“They bet that no one was going to vote; well, they voted more than those who vote for them,” the president apostilled the day a year of her electoral victory is celebrated. In last year’s elections, 61% of Mexicans went out to vote.
The only concession to criticism was to admit that the electoral process is improved. “Everything is perfectible. It is the first election. Conclusions will be drawn for 2027 ″. Within two years Mexicans will return to the polls to choose 50% of the remaining judges and conclude the reform and relief process of the entire federal judiciary.
The legal counselor of the Executive, Ernestina Godoy, on the other hand, stressed that “the campaigns for this judicial election were held peacefully. The candidates demonstrated creativity, innovation and closeness to win the voting vote; this had never been done from a judged person.” Judges candidates had no budget assigned to carry out their campaigns and had only allowed using free media, mostly social networks. “The main actor of this day yesterday was the town of Mexico and the great citizen participation,” he said.
The first results that will be known about this unprecedented election are the winners at the 9 positions of the Supreme Court of Justice, five women and four men. The Mexican high court has 11 ministers. At the close of this edition, the most voted candidate as Minister (Judge) of the Supreme Court is the indigenous lawyer Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, a law graduate who until now was the general coordinator of indigenous rights at the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI).
The candidate Aguilar did not have his own website until half campaign and that he became known through his social networks promising more human, close and without formalism justice.
Second, the current Minister Lenia Batres, close to the official party Morena. In fact, it was the former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador who appointed her as minister. The name of Lenia Batres is surrounded by controversy because her name appeared in the “accordions” that were distributed to citizens as didactic guides to help them fill their vote. Basically some “chops” with how to vote who votes. Batres is a lawyer with almost four decades of professional career and has been a public official in government positions. In this electoral campaign he presented himself as “the minister of the people.”
The results will know each other over the next two weeks. Those of the Supreme Court will remain at the end of Monday. Those of the Discipline Court will leave Wednesday; The Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court, on Thursday, and the Regional Chamber, on Friday. Next Sunday the names of the new circuit magistrates will be known and next Tuesday, June 10, the names of the judges of the circuit courts will be known. Total, in a single vote 2,700 positions of justice were relieved, 881 of them belonging to the Judicial Power of the Federation.
The low participation in the elections open a debate on the legitimacy of the process. The civil society organization of Mexico, which brings together opponents of judicial reform, asked the president to cancel the process. “Far from strengthening our democracy, it has exposed a deep crisis of legitimacy,” said President Sheinbaum.