00:00In Mexico, the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal approved the validity of the election of magistrates to renew the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation on September 1st.
00:11This was the last attempt of the right-wing groups to avoid the renewal of the judiciary from its roots.
00:18Our correspondent Antonio Aranda presents the following report on the matter.
00:21The new ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice will have to demonstrate that the era of corruption in the judiciary is over, said President Claudia Schoenbaum.
00:34The era of corruption, privilege and nepotism in the judiciary is over, and the new court.
00:45The new judges, the new magistrates, who owe it to the people because the people elected them.
00:51Must now demonstrate that the judiciary has changed fundamentally.
01:01The last effort of the right-wing to stop the reform of the judiciary was an annulment lawsuit over the case of the so-called accordions, guides to illustrate how the vote was to be cast.
01:14The argument of the magistrates in favor of the nullity project was that they illegally influenced the judicial election.
01:25There were mechanisms to influence the will of the citizens, affecting in a decisive manner the freedom of suffrage.
01:34The nullity of an election protects the freedom of suffrage, is the consequence of a requirement of the form of government adopted in the Constitution.
01:41For the majority of the full court of the electoral tribunal, the accordions are not legally sufficient proof of illegal facts that would correspond to the nullity of the election.
02:01That when it comes to annuling the will of the citizens, statistics are not enough.
02:09The bill before us today seeks to annul the election of ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, by means of the simple accumulation of inferences.
02:17But if I bring this proof, I have to bring the data, where it was done, how much it cost, who did it, to whom it was given, why it is decisive to annul the election of more than 13 million people.
02:34The validity of the election of the ministers of the Supreme Court opens a period of expectations of change towards a more social model of justice, considers this specialist.
02:44Obviously there are certain expectations of change, perhaps we will have more empathetic ministers, a more relaxed atmosphere, but there is a clear expectation of transformation, and it is an expectation that will last at least one or two years for the new court to enjoy that legitimacy bonus, we will see how it develops.
03:05The first issues to be dealt with by the new Supreme Court of Justice are the informal preventive detention and the tax debts of several businessmen totaling billions of dollars.
03:18Antonio Aranda Telesur, Ciudad de México.
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