Former Minister Arturo Zaldívar, who is being investigated for allegedly having pressured, as president of the Court, judges to favorably resolve issues of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will remain in the campaign team of the presidential candidate of Morena, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
This was confirmed by the cherry flag bearer at a press conference in Pachuca, Hidalgo, where she also emphasized that The underlying issue is “the political use” that the president of the Court has given to the issue., Norma Piñawho began an investigation in just 24 hours based on an anonymous complaint against Zaldívar, without having appeared before the prosecutor’s office.
The former head of Government of the capital was questioned about whether the retired minister will continue participating in her campaign as part of the Dialogues for Transformation, in charge of reforming the Judiciary.
“He is going to continue participating, he is going to continue participating, and the bottom line is how is it possible, I repeat, for the Court or the ministers of the Court to carry out an investigation of this type. Intervention in the electoral process belongs to the ministers of the Court“said the candidate, who also questioned that the members of the high court “now they are also the Public Ministry, Legislative Branch and Judicial BranchAll at the same time”.
Sheinbaum Pardo, in addition, like President López Obrador, He launched himself against the ministers of the Court, whom he questioned “what privileges they enjoy,” because “it is out of all rules.” They begin an investigation in just 24 hours into an anonymous complaint, which is “totally irregular.”
Minister Norma Piña, after receiving an anonymous complaint on April 9, ordered the initiation of an investigation against retired minister Zaldívar for exercising, allegedly pressure on judgesthrough its then general secretary of the Presidency of the council, Carlos Antonio Alpízar Salazar, with the aim of resolving in favor of their interestsin exchange for political and economic benefits.
Last February, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself acknowledged having intervened in the Court, when Arturo Zaldívar was the president, to modify decisions of judges in certain cases.
Questions Candidacy
On another topic, the ruling party’s presidential candidate questioned the decision of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation that PAN member Ricardo Anayawho is running for a seat in the Senate, maintain the candidacybecause it determined that it was not proven that he had a current arrest warrant.
For the Morenista, Anaya is a fugitive from justice: “The issue is that he has complaints, is a fugitive from justice, it is the same case of (Francisco Javier García) Cow’s head, then we would have to see why in one case they made a decision of one type and in the other a different type. “It catches my attention a lot.”
On the other hand, called on the National Electoral Institute (INE) to launch a campaign mass media to inform citizens that the election will take place on June 2.
“Sometimes people have July in mind, not the entire population knows that the 2024 election is in six weeks, on June 2, our colleagues who met and are on the council are already doing it, but it is a call that I ask the INE from here, from Pachuca, Hidalgo, to run a campaign,” he urged.
Sheinbaum assured, on the other hand, that “It is absolutely false” that the López Obrador government seeks to confiscate the Afores of the workers with the reform promoted by Morena in the Chamber of Deputies.
