“There are many problems we have in this matter and we have been ignoring them for more than 100 years; So, it is good that, regarding what is happening (with the case of the Minister Arturo Zaldivarsubject to investigation), We have to review, we have to be very serious and review the justice of the country as a whole.“, urged the constitutionalist Diego Valades.
In an interview with journalist René Delgado, in the EntreDichos program on El Financiero TVthe UNAM professor emeritus also pointed out that Arturo Zaldívar must separate from the presidential campaign of the Morenista Claudia Sheinbaum so as not to affect it, after the accusation he faces for alleged illicit acts in his management as president of the Supreme Court, said constitutionalist Diego Valadés.
“I wouldn’t have to do it because there is no such thing as a duty to separate, but I think that an act of elegance and solidarity with the candidate (Claudia Sheinbaum), who she works for, is to say ‘I don’t want to bring a problem to your campaign.’and resolve this, because I have nothing to hide, and then I will rejoin whatever corresponds, to the campaign or the government,” he said.
He added that the accusation against Zaldívar It is an episode that has shaken public opinion about which the minister president of the SCJN, Norma PiñaI had no choice but to investigate.
He said that neither the anonymous nature nor the leak, which Zaldívar alleges, are an impediment to investigating, since the prior procedure does exist to address this matter and, Although the former minister has rights, these must be weighed against the rights of 130 million Mexicans to know how public power operates.
He pointed out that, in a good democracy and in a good institutional system, every public servant, at any level, in any circumstance, must be accountable to society for their actions: “The presumption of innocence should not be sheltered with the impossibility of society knows what is happening.”
He explained that for years high officials have been considered untouchable, intangible, immune and unpunished, but this case has given rise to an in-depth discussion of the issue, since The prestige of the Judiciary is at stake.
