The ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) approved by majority to reduce their salaries and those of 319 other senior officials, so that in 2025 they do not exceed the salary of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, but they decided to maintain benefits, as private insurance for major medical expenses.
Minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama criticized that unconstitutional remuneration is maintained
of the members of the plenary session.
In a private session, the Court approved by eight votes to three its draft expenditure budget for 2025, for 5,922.9 million pesos, which represents a nominal increase of 2.3 percent compared to what was authorized in 2024 (135.8 million pesos). additional) and in real terms a reduction of 1.4 percent, according to inflation calculated at the end of 2024.
Voting in favor were President Norma Piña, José Luis González Alcántara, Javier Laynez, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Margarita Ríos Farjat, Alberto Pérez Dayán, Jorge Pardo and Luis María Aguilar. Batres, Yasmín Esquivel Mossa and Loretta Ortiz Ahlf were against.
The approved project considers that due to the possible adjustment to salaries derived from the reform of the Judiciary, and based on the annual salary update of the federal Executive, It will be necessary to have sufficient resources to update the entire SCJN salary table
as announced yesterday The Day.
In 2024, the gross monthly salary of a minister is 297,403.77 pesos, while that of President Claudia Sheinbaum is 186,093 pesos, which would mean that the members of the full Court will be reduced by 37.4 percent.
The adjustment to the salary table will move the base salary of the 330 senior officials of that court, three ranks down (from ministers to area directors). 9 percent of the workforce of 3,805 workers will be affected.
On social networks, Minister Batres pointed out that the remunerations in the budget project “not only do they not add additional benefits… but they even include concepts expressly prohibited in the Federal Republican Austerity Law“, such as insurance for medical expenses greater than that which They allocate 53 million 302 thousand pesos and individualized separation insurance, with 67 million 190 thousand pesos.
The remuneration of ministers for 2025 will be 5 million 325 thousand 949 pesos, 49 percent more than the remuneration of the head of the Federal Executive. The difference will no longer be three to one, but two to one
wrote.
He added a data table in which he explains that the net annual remunerations (salaries plus benefits) of the head of the Executive would be 2 million 716 thousand 303 pesos, while that of the ministers, 5 million 325 thousand 949 pesos.
Minister Ortiz Ahlf wrote on social networks that the budget does not comply with the principle of republican austerity nor with the obligation to manage public resources in an economic, transparent, rational and honest manner
.
The approved project was also criticized by ministers, because the projects section has a real growth of 74.9 percent, going from 57.6 million in 2024 to 104.6 million by 2025 and the operating budget rises 8.2 percent, from 894.7 million pesos for this year to one thousand 5.1 million pesos for the next.
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