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Mexican President Sheinbaum’s legal adviser is selected as the new attorney general

Ernestina Godoy, interim attorney general and legal adviser to President Sheinbaum, was confirmed by the Morena-led Senate following Alejandro Gertz Manero's resignation.

  • Mexico's Senate selected Ernestina Godoy, a longtime legal adviser to President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the country's new attorney general.
  • Godoy replaced Alejandro Gertz Manero, who resigned after serving as Mexico's first independent attorney general since 2019.
  • Opposition Senator Manuel Añorve Baños criticized the selection process, saying there were 'not clear rules or transparency.
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Habemus new Prosecutor! Ernestina Godoy Ramos was appointed on Wednesday as head of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), after obtaining the majority of votes (97 in favour) in the plenary session of the Senate. With this, she became the first woman to head this institution. Godoy, who remained in charge of the office of the FGR after the departure of Alejandro Gertz Manero, was one of the three candidates elected by President Claudia Sheinbaum …

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum advanced this Wednesday on a key position, and that was in the hands of a relative to his predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador : the Attorney General of the Republic. Sheinbaum placed Ernestina Godoy, his current legal adviser, in that position. The movement also implies a ratification of the power of Secretary of Security Omar García Harfuch: the first appointments of the new attorney general were with th…

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Mexico City, 3 Dec (EFE).- The new head of the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR) of Mexico, Ernestina Godoy (Mexico City, 1954), has walked with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, at key moments of her political project, from the foundation of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), through the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City, to the Executive's Legal Advisory Office at the beginning of the current government. Godoy…

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Mexican President Sheinbaum's legal adviser is selected as the new attorney general

Mexico’s Senate has selected Ernestina Godoy, a longtime legal adviser to President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the new attorney general.

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* The debate made it clear that the dispute is not about the person, but about the model of justice that Mexico needs in the next decade. Mexico City—The Senate plenary not only voted a name; it voted a course. With 97 votes in favour, Ernestina Godoy Ramos was appointed Attorney General of the Republic for a period that transcends governments, legislative cycles and party disputes. Her arrival at the FGR is not a process: it is the first big mo…

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Periódico Expreso - Más Cerca de Ti broke the news in on Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
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