A Political Earthquake Shakes the Judiciary
The General Council of the INE, after eleven days of internal battles that seemed endless, made a decision that will resonate like thunder in the corridors of power: 45 candidates, among them 24 aspiring to circuit magistrates and 21 to district judges, saw their dreams of glory disappear into the air. The reason? They did not reach the required academic average, a paltry 8 for a Law Degree and a challenging 9 for related specialties. But that was not all…
A Scandal that Tears the Cobwebs of Power
Among the shadows of this institutional drama, a name emerged that chilled everyone’s blood: Héctor Ulises Orduña Hernández, the candidate who, from the cold bars of a cell, had managed to conquer a mixed court in Veracruz. Accused of child abuse, his triumph was erased as if it had never existed, leaving a void that screams the cracks in the system from the rooftops.
The positions, now ghosts, will remain vacant, while the INE prepares to deliver, as of July 3, the long-awaited certificates of majority to 438 magistrates and 363 judges who did manage to overcome the labyrinth of requirements. But at what price?
The numbers danced like leaves in the wind: 6, 47, 45, 36, 37… figures that changed capriciously until, at 2:00 p.m. this Thursday, the counselors, with tense faces and measured words, set the final number: 46 canceled candidacies. Counselor Carla Humphrey, with a voice cracked by fatigue, revealed the secret behind the delay: perfecting the evaluation method, the one that the Constitution requires but that no one had applied rigorously.
But the scandal did not end there. The files arrived late, incomplete, even with “overlaid” grades, as if someone had played god with the documents. Claudia Zavala, another counselor, threw a poisoned dart: the INE had to do the work that the Evaluation Committees of the Powers abandoned. “We haven’t slept,” he confessed, as his words painted a picture of entire nights reviewing papers under the dim light of the offices.
And among the fallen, one name shines with its own light: Arturo Manuel Fernández Abundis, the candidate for criminal magistrate that the Senate demanded to eliminate. His name, now crossed out in red ink, is the symbol of a purge that many call necessary and others, a witch hunt.
The INE, in the midst of this hurricane, stands as the guardian of legitimacy, but who watches over the watchers?
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