The Evaluation Committee of the Federal Executive has announced the list of candidates considered suitable to be candidates for ministers in the upcoming judicial election. This list shows a tendency towards profiles aligned with Morena and the government of Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican president. For example, names such as Bernardo Bátiz Vázquez, current Counselor of the Federal Judiciary and former capital prosecutor, and María Estela Ríos González, former legal advisor to former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, are mentioned.
In the Judicial Discipline Tribunal, this trend is also evident, where candidates for magistrate positions include figures like Celia Maya García, current Counselor of the Federal Judiciary; Nestor Vargas Solano, former legal advisor to Claudia Sheinbaum; and Federico Hidalgo Huchim Gamboa, a former collaborator of Irma Eréndira Sandoval. Both lists will undergo a process of drawing lots to reduce to two candidates per position.
Among the candidates for ministers, figures such as Fabiana Estrada Tena and Marisol Castañeda Pérez, close to the former president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Arturo Zaldívar, are also included. Mexico Evalúa highlights the closeness of magistrate Lorena Josefina Pérez Romo with Zaldívar. Additionally, names such as Sara Irene Herrerías Guerra, current Special Prosecutor for Human Rights of the Attorney General's Office, are mentioned.
In the realm of candidates for ministers, figures like Jaime Cárdenas Gracia, former counselor of the IFE and husband of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, María de la Luz Mijangos Borja, stand out. Sergio Javier Molina Martínez, current Counselor of the Federal Judiciary and defender of judicial reform, is also highlighted. Among other candidates, names like Eduardo Santillán Pérez and Federico Anaya Gallardo are mentioned.
The list of candidates for the Judicial Discipline Tribunal is also marked by figures aligned with the Fourth Transformation, which has been considered a risk for judicial reform according to magistrate María Emilia Molina de la Puente.
