With 88 votes in favor, 28 against and five abstentions, the Senate approved the list of 10 candidates to head the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) that will be sent to the Chairwomanwho will return a shortlist to the Upper House that is expected to be voted on this Wednesday.
This Tuesday, the Senate accelerated the process to designate the successor of Alejandro Gertz Maneroto the point that the appointment of the new head of the FGR It would take place this Wednesday, after receiving the shortlist proposed by the president Claudia Sheinbaum.
The ordinary session began shortly after noon with a list approved by the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), on a list headed by Ernestina Godoycurrent office manager of the FGR.
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FGR office manager makes changes
Despite not being confirmed in the position, Godoy has already made various appointments in the Prosecutor’s Office, such as Hector Elizalde Morain front of the Criminal Investigation Agencyy César Oliveros Aparicioin the Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Organized Crime Matters.
Until her appointment to the FGR, Godoy served as Legal Advisor to the Presidency, and served as prosecutor of Mexico City when Claudia Sheinbaum was head of government of the capital.
The list endorsed by the Senate also contains the names of Luz María Zarza
Delgado, Maribel Bojorges Beltrán, Sandra Luz González Mogollón, Mirna Lucía Grande Hernández, Luis Manuel Pérez de Acha, Félix Roel Herrera Antonio, Hamlet García Almaguer, David Borja Padilla y Miguel Nava Alvarado.
Originally on the list appeared the Magistrate Alfredo Barredabut his registration as an applicant was discarded because he did not comply with the requirement of two years of separation from the position, being replaced by Felix Roel Hernandezformer representative of Morena in it Electoral Institute of Coahuila.
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Debate in the Senate
During the session of Senatethe PRI Claudia Anaya He pointed out that the process is rigged and that a quick call was opened for “all Morena paleros to register.”
“In fast track they change the procedure that had been established for the first time in 2019 for the selection of the prosecutorwhich was that the Justice Commission will interview the three profiles that the Presidency of the Republic will send. No, not anymore, now the agreement of the one-person Jucopo tells us that nothing more than what is going to happen here in the Plenary, questions, answers and let’s go to the vote, all in less than a week that they have coerced the prosecutor (Gertz Manero),” he stressed.
She even ironically said that the entire country “is nervous” about who will succeed Gertz Manero, to which she herself responded “tomorrow we will vote for fellow senator Ernestina Godoy (…) very close to the Presidency.”
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