As announced in previous weeks, the presidents of the Senate Board of Directors and the Chamber of Deputies submitted a formal application to the National Electoral Institute (INE) to Cancel the registration of 26 candidacies of the judicial election. As reported, 18 of them could breach with the requirement of good reputation and eight more with the general average of qualification.
Gerardo Fernández NoroñaPresident of the Board of Directors in the Senate, and Sergio Gutiérrez Lunahis counterpart in the Chamber of Deputies, came last Sunday, May 4 before the INE to present a report with the arguments against the 26 candidates indicated.
“The 18 listing people do not meet the constitutional requirement of ‘enjoying good reputation’, for being linked to current federal criminal investigations, including serious crimes such as sexual abuse, peculation, threats, injuries and organized crime; and 8 more candidates do not meet the general average qualification in degree of at least eight points,” they said in the statement.
According to the information published by the Chamber of Deputies, the profiles indicated for not meeting any of the aforementioned requirements are the following:
By Do not have a good reputation:
- Fernando Escamilla Villarreal – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (Defender of people charged with belonging to organized crime).
- Jesús Humberto Padilla Briones – Applicant to PJF district judge (having been made available for carrying a firearm and health crimes).
- Diana Montserrat departure – aspiring District Judge of the PJF (to have granted undue freedom accused of organized crime).
- Julio Veredín Sena – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (Having unduly granted the accused of organized crime).
- Aníbal Castro Borbón – Applicant to PJF district judge (having improperly acquitted person accused of organized crime).
- Conrado Alcalá Romo – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (having improperly granted an organized crime leader).
- Enrique Hernández Miranda – Aspiring PJF district judge (having unduly omitted impose precautionary measures to an accused of organized crime).
- Francisco Herrera Franco – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (have links with organized crime members).
- Francisco Martín Hernández Zaragoza – Aspiring PJF magistrate (to have been charged with sexual abuse of various victims, sanctioned and dismissed by the Judicial Council in 2015).
- Edgar Agustín Rodríguez Beiza – Aspiring PJF magistrate (to have been charged with sexual abuse of a student).
- Andrés Montoya García – Aspiring PJF magistrate (have been charged with forced disappearance of people in the grievance of a journalist).
- Leopoldo Javier Chávez – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (have been charged with crimes against health).
- Alejandro Tlacahuac Zitlalpopoca – Aspiring magistrate of the Collegiate circuit Court (charged with the crime of sexual abuse).
- Ángel Antonio Villegas Cortés – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (charged with the crime of threats and injuries).
- Noel Castro Melgar – Applicant to PJF district judge (charged with the crime of peculation and sexual abuse).
- Arturo César Morales Ramírez – Aspiring magistrate of the Collegiate Circuit Court (charged with the crime of crime organized in the hypothesis of crimes against health).
- Jesús Karina Almada Rábago – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (He served as a defense lawyer for a member of the Sinaloa Cartel).
- María de Jesús López Guzmán – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (It served as a defense lawyer for a person related to organized crime).
For not complying with the general average qualification:
- Arturo Manuel Fernández Abundis – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (General average of 7.93 in degree).
- ELVA REGINA JIMÉNEZ CASTILLO – ASPIRANT TO MAGISTRADE OF REGIONAL SALAS OF THE TEPJF (General average of 7.9 in degree).
- Juan Hernández Rodríguez – Aspiring PJF circuit magistrate (General average of 7.84 In bachelor’s degree.
- Raúl Miguel Gaspar Pech Marinez – Aspiring PJF district judge (General average of 7.69 in degree).
- Joaquín Flores Ruiz – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (General average of 7.6 in degree).
- Porfirio Aldama Mota – Aspiring District Judge of the PJF (General average of 7.19 in degree).
- Alejandra Ramírez de la Vega – Aspiring circuit magistrate (General average of 7 in degree).
- Mario Alberto Parada Cerón – Applicant to PJF district judge (General average of 7.7 in degree).
