Mexico City. After the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation announced that they will return to their activities starting next Tuesday, Juana Fuentes Velázquez, district judge and general director of the National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (Jufed), went to the headquarters of the highest court in the country and announced that this Friday at noon she will meet with the national board of this group to determine the course they will take after the approval in the Congress of the Union of the constitutional reform to the Judicial Branch.
He acknowledged that there is a division of opinions in the judicial sector between those who want to return to work and those who ask to remain on strike. “Opinion is very divided. Indeed, some leaders think that the objective has been met, which is precisely the search for dialogue for reform, as I pointed out yesterday, the corresponding legal actions will continue to be carried out, in that there is no such thing as a diverse action,” he added.
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Interviewed upon her arrival, she said that she went to the Court’s headquarters to meet with Justice Norma Piña, the president, and then changed her statement and said that she went to speak with the court’s workers and assured that upon her arrival she did not have any scheduled meeting with the president, Norma Lucía Piña, or with any of the ministers. She arrived at the premises accompanied by Patricia Aguayo, spokesperson for the rank-and-file workers of the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF), who entered immediately without making any statement.
“Tomorrow at 12:00 I have a meeting with the regional directors and the national board,” said the judge.
-So tomorrow the decision will be made whether they return or not?- he was asked.
-Exactly- he replied.
As one of the elements to be analyzed, Fuentes Velázquez explained that “the declaration of suspension of activities establishes in its point 2 that, with a call to the members of the national board and regional directors (of Jufed), with the linkage committee that they know is formed in case a dialogue is held in a collegial manner, the decision will be made to resume, if necessary.”
He noted that some regional directors in the regions they represent are in consultation with various judges and magistrates. This decision will be voted on in a plenary session with the participation of 14 members of the national board as well as 32 regional directors. It is also planned to incorporate the five members of the dialogue committee.
Regarding the judges’ state of mind, he said that they are still willing to support the workers’ actions, to whom he attributed the start of this strike, which the judges joined. “We are talking to them, the intention is to listen to them, we know that it is also their movement.”
He also confirmed that workers continue to receive their salaries because, he said, urgent services have not stopped, although he acknowledged that ordinary services have stopped.
At the same time, various federal courts are continuing their work stoppage. During the sit-in held by members of the Judiciary at the Collegiate Court on Administrative Matters of the First Circuit, at Periférico Sur 2321, Carolina Isabela Alcalá Valenzuela, a magistrate assigned to the 9th Collegiate Court on Administrative Matters, reported that they will continue the strike.
“In this office and in all the offices of the Judicial Branch of the Federation, we will continue to suspend work, in a movement of resistance, that is to say, in a state of struggle. Because we are not fighting for our rights or for our privileges as people have unfortunately been led to believe; we are fighting for the survival of democracy in Mexico and its republican system, divided into three powers,” he said.
He said that the decision taken by the Court to return to its activities is independent and does not affect this movement. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has a very large responsibility in matters of national importance, but it respects the decisions of the working class.
In the administrative district courts located at Periférico Sur 1950, Jaqueline Martinez, technical administrative coordinator, explained that the decision to withdraw or continue will be made by consensus among all the circuits of the Judicial Branch. She clarified that at the moment they have not been called to return to the sit-in at the Senate of the Republic or at the Chamber of Deputies, where they left during the early morning.
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