During the solemn session of this January 2, the SCJN elected its first President in history.
Second place was Minister Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, who obtained 5 votes in favor.
Users have reacted to the third place of Yasmín Esquivel and the latest statements from the UNAM about the alleged plagiarism of her thesis.
For the first time in history, a woman will preside over the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN); Norma Lucía Piña Hernández was elected as President of the Judiciary of the Federation and the defeat of Yasmín Esquivel in this contest soon became a viral trend, reviving the controversy of the alleged plagiarism of her thesis and the “war” indicated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) against the “Fourth Transformation”.
Today the decision of the Court for its leader for the next four years was announced. It was about three votes in the solemn session until obtaining the majority result that left the ministers out of contention Yasmin Esquivel Mossa, Alberto Gelacio Perez Dayan, Javier Laynez Potisek and Alfredo Gutierrez Ortiz Mena.
The definition of who will replace Arturo Zaldívar at the head of the SCJN was carried out after obtaining 6 votes out of 11, after which Norma Piña took office protest and gave a speech on the axis in which she will manage the values of the organization, prioritizing , mainly, the strengthening and autonomous power of the institution.
SCJN makes history with the first President, and no, it is not Yasmín Esquivel
During the election of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Minister Yasmín Esquivel only managed to obtain two and one vote in favor, of the six she needed, for which reason she was soon out of the competition, fueling her controversy over the alleged plagiarism of his thesis for the degree in the Faculty of Higher Studies Aragón of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (FES Aragón-UNAM).
Although the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office (CDMX) has exposed that the plagiarism occurred by the lawyer Edgar Ulises Baes Gutiérrez, it will be the UNAM who resolves the controversy, meanwhile the President of the Republic himself has defended the “poor lawyer Yasmín” of what he considered “an entire war of potentates”.
“Those we proposed stepped aside. They did not enter the Transformation because it is very comfortable to be on the side of the conservatives ”, AMLO explained about the SCJN and her vision of how she was “kidnapped” by ministers and judges moved by “the interests of conservatism ”.
Despite this, Norma Piña is the new head of the SCJN and has promised to embody a double representation, that of her colleagues and that of women, since she is the first female to obtain this power and to seek to demonstrate that her strength can fight to corner our patriarchal culture of Mexico.
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