The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic The names of the 26 candidates for judges who challenged the purpose of the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) cancel your candidacy to benefit sentences to criminals, for being charged in crimes of crime o abuse sexl, and in eight cases, for not having Minimum average of 8 In the Bachelor of Law.
Some of the names coincide with those who have also denounced the Defensorxs Organization for having links with crime or drug trafficking.
Congress cameras challenged Fernando EscamillaAJ candidateDistrict uez in criminal matters of the third circuit, for having been Defender of the drug trafficker and former leader of Los Zetas, Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales.
Also, It was challenged to Jesús Humberto Padilla BrionesAJ candidateUZA in criminal matters of the state of Nuevo Leónfor having been made available For carrying firearm y Health crimes.
Also to the judge in functions, Diana Montserratcandidate for District Judge in Criminal Matters of the Sixth Circuitfor having ordered the freedom of Marcelino Ticanican Castro“The ghost”, Presumedor security chief of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
At the time, the judge said that Ticanican requested early freedom, a benefit that all people have and that is established in the Article 141 of the National Criminal Execution Law.
The candidacy of the acting judge and candidate for district judge in criminal matters was also challenged, Julio Veredín Senabecause in 2019 it granted a suspension that prevented the extradition of the drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quinterofounder of Guadalajara cartel.
Another of the challenges is the acting judge Aníbal Castro Bourbonwho in September 2024 issued a sentence Absolute to a criminal known as Isidro “n”.
Similarly, the candidacy for judge of Conrado Alcalá Romowho in 2023 left without effect a formal prison car and ordered to replace the procedure against Héctor Palma Salazaralias “The Güero Palma”, Founder of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Likewise, Congress requested the annulment of the candidacy for federal judge of Enrique Hernández Mirandafor omitting impose precautionary measures in 2024 against Juvenal Jiménezalias “He Godfather“, Leader of an International Network of Trafficking in Persons.
In addition, the candidacy for district magistrate of Francisco Herrera Franconicknamed as “The Terror Prosecutor“, for being linked to the delinquency y With the murder of Two journalists In Michoacán: Roberto Toledo y Armando Linares.
The cancellation of the candidacy for magistrate of Francisco Martín Hernández Zaragozafor having an accusation in 2015, and being a district judge, for Sexually harass a worker.
In parallel, the cancellation of the candidacy for magistrate of Edgar Agustín Rodríguez Beizafor having been charged in a case of Sexual abuse of a student.
In a complaint he also made Defensorxsthe legislative power asked to cancel the candidacy of Andrés Montoya Garcíacandidate for magistrate of Collegiate Court of Appeal of the Fifth Circuitfor its relationship with the disappearance of the journalist Alfredo Jiménez Typeoccurred on April 2, 2005.
Likewise, as he accused him Defensorxsthe legislative power asked the TEPJF to cancel the candidacy of Leopold Javier Chávez Vargascandidate a District Judge in Mixed Matters for the State of Durangowho was almost six years in prison in USA afterR Methamphetamine trafficking.
He Legislative power He considered that he does not meet the requirement of good reputation, as well as the rest of the challenges.
The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies asked to cancel the candidacy of Marco Angel Antonio Villegas Cortéspara jFederal UZ in Mixed Matter of Veracruzfor being involved in a research folder for threats and injuries against a woman.
They also asked to withdraw the candidacy for the judge Noel Castro MelgaA, for being charged in an investigation by harassment and collect “moches” to their collaborators.
Also the candidacy for magistrate in work material in Puebla of Alejandro Tlacuahuac Zitlalpopocabeing charged a folder for sexual abuse.
Similarly, to Arturo César Morales Ramírezcandidate for magistrate in Mexico City, for being charged with the crime of organized crime in the hypothesis of crimes against health, in the previous investigation PGR/SIEDO/EUIDCS/050/2007.
Finally, the two Congress cameras requested the cancellation of federal judges and magistrates of Manuel Fernández Abunds Art.; Elva Regina Jiménez Castillo; Juan Hernández Rodríguez; Raúl Miguel Gaspar Pech Marinez; Joaquín Flores Ruiz, Porfirio Aldana Mota; Alejandra Ramírez de la Vega y Mario Alberto Parada Cerón, All to comply with the constitutional requirement of having a minimum average of 8 in the law degree.
Although the TEPJF will cancel these candidates, the names of the people will appear on the ballots that citizens will receive on June 1, since these were already printed and there is no room to make changes, as determined by the National Electoral Institute.
