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Mexico's New Attorney General Election

Mexico's Senate is choosing a new head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) after Alejandro Gertz Manero's resignation. Key candidates, including Luis Pérez de Acha, and the political process.


Mexico's New Attorney General Election

The candidate with the most consensus is constitutionalist and tax lawyer Luis Pérez de Acha, from the Free Law School and director of the firm PdeA (Pérez de Acha e Ibarra de Rueda). The same firm where he is a partner and currently works Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro, the celebrated former magistrate who stopped Andrés Manuel López Obrador's Energy Reform and who resigned from his magistracy in protest against Claudia Sheinbaum's Judicial Election. Also highlighted in Pérez de Acha's biography is that in 2018 he first attempted to be appointed as head of the Prosecutor's Office and even appeared before the Senate Justice Commission. To begin with, the new head of the FGR must demonstrate independence from the ruling party and autonomy with respect to the Executive and Legislative branches. For this, they demand that the case of businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú, owner of half of the Miss Universe franchise, accused by the FGR of Gertz Manero of organized crime, arms trafficking from Guatemala, fuel theft and money laundering, be a priority. In addition, César Gutiérrez Priego, a lawyer and creator of YouTubers who aspired to a ministry in the Supreme Court of Justice but failed. In the 4T, they point to the leak of Rocha Cantú's file upon Gertz Manero's resignation. This publication consulted with the opposition senators' leadership with the recorder off and they trusted that their votes will have several criteria, which would rule out the aforementioned candidates (particularly, Ernestina Godoy). At that time, she did not make it to the shortlist, and the most voted was Alejandro Gertz Manero, now packing his bags to go to an Embassy in a 'friendly country'. I have presented before the Senate my aspiration to occupy the position of Attorney General of the Republic. The above before Rocha requested a plea bargain. The case of Raúl Rocha could reach Senator Adán Augusto López himself and has already impacted the victory of Fátima Bosch, whose controversy tarnished any merit of the Tabasco native, daughter of a high-ranking Pemex official with whom Rocha Cantú made million-dollar deals under suspicion that they were not legitimate. Businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú. However, senators from the PAN, PRI, and Citizen Movement are not coming empty-handed to the discussion and are promoting their own profiles to take the head of the FGR. Days after Alejandro Gertz Manero's resignation as head of the Attorney General of the Republic and after he himself appointed Ernestina Godoy as the acting head of the FGR, the Senate of the Republic finished reviewing the files that arrived at the parliamentary hall on Reforma Avenue to integrate the list of aspirants. The list that already circulates among members of the Political Coordination Board is made up of 43 names where there is a strong influence of the ruling party, and from which the senators will select at least 10 candidates who will be sent to President Claudia Sheinbaum with the purpose that the head of state choose a shortlist from those profiles. Next, to conclude the election process at the FGR (the second one in the country in less than 10 years), by a qualified majority—that is, at least two-thirds of the senators—the new head of the autonomous body in charge of the functions of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office will be elected. Among the names, Godoy Ramos herself stands out, until a few days ago the Legal Counselor of the Presidency, head of the CDMX Prosecutor's Office in the Sheinbaum Pardo administration in the Head of Government and who formed a successful tandem with Omar García Harfuch in the security strategy to reduce violence and crime in the country's capital. Also in the list can be read the names of other prominent Morenistas, such as the former federal deputy Hamlet Almaguer, close to Secretary Marcelo Ebrard; Ricardo Peralta, former Undersecretary of the Interior in Olga Sánchez Cordero's time and very close to Senator Adán Augusto López. I share this video with the essential elements of my career and the motivations that drive this decision.