Mexico City, Minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama assured that the reform of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) will open a “new era of democratic justice” in Mexico, and accused that those who attack the amendment are because they “benefited from the regime of abuses, excesses, privileges , impunity and multiple injustices that the Judiciary protected and protected.”
When giving his second work report this Thursday at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), he highlighted that the judicial reform “will soon open a new era of justice in Mexico, the era of democratic justice, in which the “The Mexican people will elect ministers, magistrates, federal judges, who will submit to their scrutiny and will be subject to controls that are currently lacking.”
Regarding her time in Court, she assured that she and her team have respected austerity policies, adjusting their salaries and expenses in accordance with the law, generating savings for the public treasury, from December to August, of more than 6.8 million pesos. .
Of that figure, she explained that in that period she has returned to the treasury and waived benefits totaling more than 2.3 million pesos.
“In total, since each collaborator of the presentation signed their employment contract, 225,431 pesos have been saved for bonuses that exceed the constitutional remuneration limit, for insurance of major medical expenses, 801,872 pesos, and for individualized separation insurance, 3 million 509,141 pesos. That is, 4 million 536,444 pesos, which, added to the 2 million 314,390 pesos, gives a total of 6 million 850,834 pesos,” José María Iglesia said from the auditorium.
During the report, attended by her brother Martí Batres Guadarrama, head of Government of Mexico City, she criticized that during her duties as minister she has “faced dogmas that the Supreme Court applied automatically and uncritically to resolve issues.” issues that were “concerning” as they were “abusive and unconstitutional practices.”
He gave as an example that, from 2019 to date, the Court has invalidated 11 local and federal laws for failing to comply with rules of deliberative democracy “that were established in the jurisprudence of the Court itself, but that lack a constitutional or legal basis.”
In another case, he pointed out that the “invalidity by extension” of laws was declared, with respect to those that were challenged.
“In this case, rules are invalidated informally, without anyone requesting it, even rules at a higher hierarchical level than those challenged. From 2019 to 2023, 79 laws were invalidated by extension.”
Regarding his work in the high court, he said that he has participated in the study and voting on 1,249 issues, while in the Second Chamber he participated in the resolution of 1,131.
Between January and August of this year, he said, he also presented a total of 216 projects, of which the vast majority, 200, were approved in the Second Chamber, while the rest were rejected or returned.
Among the projects that were approved, the direct protection under review 1854/2023 stood out, in which the collective labor contract of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León was analyzed, and it was resolved that the provision that limited the payment of a compensation to 10 years was illegal. widow’s pension.
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– 2024-10-02 12:23:37
