JUFED Alert to the UN: Democracy 'Depends on a String'

Before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the JUFED advirti that Mexican democracy hangs by a thread with judicial election.

The governments of AMLO and now of Sheinbaum have distorted the truth and fabricate a narrative of corruption within the judiciary, the Jufed accuses.

On Monday, the National Association of Circuit Judges and District Judges of the Judicial Power of the Federation (Jufed), informed that its director Juana Fuentes Velázquez, will meet with officials of the United Nations Organization. According to a statement, the meeting between the judge will be with the Human Rights Council of [...] The article Association of Judges and Judges will denounce to the UN the annulment of the division of powers i…

The European Network of Councils for the Judiciary, which includes European judges, rejected the judicial election, that is, the method of election by direct vote of judges, magistrates and ministers in Mexico. In replying to a letter to María Emilia Molina, a judge and former member of the Judicial Review Committee, the network of European judges pointed out that what is contained in the judicial reform, promoted by former President Andrés Manu…

Almost two months after the elections of the Judiciary of the Federation are held at the local level in 19 states, eight are considered to have levels of “very high risk” and “high risk” due to the interference that organized crime could have with the candidates, who would face threats, coercion, armed attacks and even murders. [...]

Cd. of Mexico.- The main group of federal judges will denounce to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the contempt of sentences against judicial reform and will seek in this instance to raise the alarm for the annulment of the division of powers in Mexico. The National Association of Circuit Judges and District Judges of the Judicial Power of the Federation (Jufed) reported in a statement that its director Juan…