Mexico’s new Supreme Court will feature a clear majority of judges with direct calls to the former leftist president of the country or the brunette government party, which he founded, according to preliminary results from the elections.
The main candidates of the election of Sunday (1st) for the nine members of the Court include three judges originally nominated by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO and creator of the election. Three other probable winners worked for him in the past or the brunette. The overdue results were released on Tuesday (3).
Three of AMLO’s previous nominations for the Supreme Court, which must keep its positions – Lenia Batres, Yasmin Esquivel and Loretta Ortiz – will probably give President Claudia Sheinbaum a core of allied judges.
The trio should be accompanied by Hugo Aguilar and María Estela Ríos, who worked as employees in the previous governments of López Obrador, as well as Irving Espinosa, who was advisor to the brunette’s legislators in the House of Representatives. Aguilar is an indigenous lawyer and was the most voted candidate overall.
Although it is unclear how jurists with brunette -passed calls will act in their positions, if they come together in politically sensitive cases, they will be able to give Sheinbaum a considerable influence on the Supreme Court.
Guadalupe Taddei, president of the INE Electoral Institute, announced the preliminary results of the elections for the Supreme Court, in the first set of findings released after Sunday’s unprecedented election.
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The banknotes, with several pages, asked voters to choose 881 federal judges among more than 3,000 candidates, marking the first time that a great modern democracy chose to elect all their high -ranking judges.
Taddei stated that 91% of the votes were accounted for, while about 13% of approximately 100 million voters vote for. By comparison, last year’s presidential election had a 61%attendance.
“This was really the biggest election in our history,” said Taddei, who praised the investigation as “perfectly observed, documented and protected.”
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In the ballot for the Supreme Court, voters were invited to choose five women and four men, in accordance with the gender parity rules that extended to all judicial elections.
Aguilar is an indigenous advocate who has never acted as a judge. He was a senior employee at the government agency of indigenous peoples during the government of López Obrador.
Ríos, who was also among the five main women’s candidates, specializes in labor law and acted as legal advisor to López Obrador when he was president and, before that, when he was mayor of Mexico.
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A supreme cut aligned with the brunette can also impact the Mexican economy.
Last year, when it was clear that López Obrador had votes in Congress to approve the constitutional reform that paved the way for a fully elected federal judiciary, Mexican weight weakened significantly in the face of concerns that investments in Mexico would become more risky without independent cuts.
The INE should disclose election results by June 10, including members of the new and powerful court of judicial discipline, responsible for supervising judges, as well as two members of the main electoral court.
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The low participation in the polls on Sunday raised doubts about the legitimacy of the future judiciary, but Sheinbaum minimized criticism.
“Thirteen million people voted freely,” she told reporters on Monday (2). “Everything can be improved, but I think it was a big process.”
Jorge Buendía, head of the research company Buendía & Marquez, also described Sunday’s participation as Baixa and warned that even the newly elected judges to the Supreme Court, considered sympathetic to the brunette, may surprise.
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“We have to wait for the decisions they make in their positions,” he said. “There are many precedents, not only in Mexico, but also in the United States, of judges appointed by a party that later made unfavorable decisions to this party.”
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