Senate ratifies magistrates for the Superior Chamber of the TFJA

The opposition questioned the selection of the profiles to join the Federal Court of Administrative Justice (TFJA) while the Morenista majority highlighted that they meet the legal and suitability requirements.

Mexico City, October 16 (However).- The Senate of the Republic yesterday ratified Ariadna Camacho Contreras, Selene Cruz Alcalá, Ludmila Valentina Albarrán Acuña, Eduardo Santillán Pérez y José Ramón Amieva Gálvez as magistrates of the Upper Room of the Federal Court of Administrative Justice (TFJA), who They will hold office for 15 years non-extendable from November 1, 2025.

The appointment was approved with 82 votes in favor, 34 against and one abstention. After the vote, the president of the Senate, Laura Itzel Castillo Juareztook oath to the new members of the tribunal.

The president of the Finance and Public Credit Commission, Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, highlighted that those appointed meet the legal, technical and suitability requirements, and stated that with these ratifications the Federal Executive demonstrates its commitment to having the best profiles. “Mexico requires upright, technical, expert and capable public servants,” he stressed.

On the platform, senators expressed conflicting positions. From Morena, Araceli Saucedo Reyes defended that the profiles are of honest people with solid experience, which she said will strengthen administrative justice and accountability.

With 82 votes in favor, 34 against and one abstention, Ariadna Camacho Contreras, Selene Cruz Alcalá, Ludmila Valentina Albarrán Acuña, Eduardo Santillán Pérez and José Ramón Amieva Gálvez are ratified as judges of the Superior Chamber of the Federal Court of…

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For his part, PAN member Raymundo Bolaños Azocar criticized the lack of autonomy in the appointments, pointing out that the Superior Chamber will remain “predictably partial in favor of the government.” He assured that the proposals “demonstrate the totalitarian aspiration of the regime.”

From the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), Waldo Fernández González affirmed that the Court is a key institution for the Mexican State and that its integration reflects trust in the institutions. Meanwhile, PRI member Cristina Ruiz Sandoval questioned whether the appointments respond to political ties, which, she said, “undermines citizen trust.”

From the Labor Party (PT), Ana Karen Hernández Aceves maintained that this is a transcendent decision for the autonomy and direction of the court, since the magistrates “will define the last line of defense of citizens against the abuses of the federal authorities.”

On the contrary, the coordinator of the Citizen Movement, Clemente Castañeda Hoeflich, considered that the decision responds to the interests of the Executive, as it is, he said, a “reward for loyalty and unconditional obedience.”

Who are the new magistrates?

The new judges have experience in different areas of law and public administration:

• Ariadna Camacho Contreras has worked at Pemex, the Mexico City Tax Attorney’s Office and the Federal Tourism Secretariat.
• Selene Cruz Alcalá was a Judge at the Federal Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, and head of the Federal Labor Defense Attorney’s Office.
• Ludmila Valentina Albarrán Acuña has specialized in environmental regulations and urban development, and presided over a chamber of the Administrative Justice Court of Mexico City.
• Eduardo Santillán Pérez has been Delegational Head in Álvaro Obregón, local Deputy and official of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJ-CdMx).
• José Ramón Amieva Gálvez, former head of the capital’s Government, is currently a Magistrate of the Administrative Justice Court of Hidalgo.

With its ratification, the Senate completed the integration of the Superior Chamber of the TFJA, a body that resolves disputes between individuals and tax or administrative authorities, and which, according to Yunes Márquez, “contributes to effective justice that is close to the needs of citizens.”

Sheinbaum rules out profound reform of the Administrative Court

Last Friday, October 10, the President said in her morning conference that the excesses that have occurred in this Court of Administrative Justice would be reviewed, although she ruled out sending a profound reform until everything that has to do with the secondary laws of the Reform of the Judiciary is closed.

“But for now, send the profiles of those who we consider to be honest people and who have experience to be able to serve the Superior Chamber mainly, but also many of the magistracies that are vacant,” she said when asked about how her Government will address bad practices in this instance, such as excessive expenses paid by the treasury as well as complaints of labor abuse.

On September 22, for example, the Data Unit of However announced how federal Judge Magda Zulema Mosri Gutiérrez, of the Superior Chamber of the TFJA, has had the benefit of the public budget paying for her telephone service and so far 57 official trips, with travel expenses included; six of them international, to countries like Argentina, Morocco and Bolivia. All this with a cost to the treasury of at least 1.2 million pesos, from 2012 to date.

In general, from 2022 to 2025, judges of the Superior Chamber of the TFJA and the Government Board spent 804 thousand pesos for representation and travel expenses alone. This includes everything from coffee at Starbucks and stays at Hilton hotels, to restaurant bills of almost 8 thousand pesos, like the one recorded by Judge Hortensia García in June 2024.

In that sense, the President spoke of filling the vacancies in the Superior Chamber and in the regional Chambers with honest profiles.