Could some candidates for the court elections be disqualified by the race because they are “defenders of drug traffickers” (as a senator from the Morena party suggested)?
What is Mexico president Do you like to read?
They were among the questions that President Claudia Sheinbaum answered during his press conference on Wednesday morning.
Are some criminals of the judicial elections criminals?
A journalist noted that the senator of the ruling party and president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Noroña Inaugural judicial elections in Mexico June 1 may not be appropriate contenders because they May have criminal links.
The journalist asked the president if he was still time for the National Electoral Institute to disqualify the candidates.
“It depends on the upper chamber … of the federal electoral court,” said Sheinbaum.
She noted that the candidates for the elections have already been officially “selected” and “approved”, but have added that “if there is one case in which it is found that a (candidate) … has a criminal relationship or has no punctual average of 8 years in their degree, as the constitution request (a complaint) can be presented.”
Sheinbaum said that from his “particular point of view”, a candidate “could” be disqualified if they are considered an unsuitable or ineligible competitor for a judgment, even if they are already on the ballot. »»
“But all the evidence should be presented, right?” She added.
Sheinbaum stressed that the Federal Electoral Court will have the last word on the adequacy of the candidates.
One of the various criticisms of the staging of judicial elections is that drug cartels and other groups of organized crimes could effectively install judges by putting pressure on or forcing citizens to vote for their favorite candidates.
The elections continue on the first Sunday in June thanks to the Approval by the congress of a controversial judicial reform last year.
Sheinbaum: Reading is “essential for the development of creativity”
On World Book and Copyright DayA journalist asked the president to offer an opinion on National Statistics Agency Inegi data This shows that Mexican adults read on average 3.4 pounds per year.
“We are going to invite Paco Taibo … because there is a very important effort to promote reading,” said Sheinbaum.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II is a writer, novelist and chief of the non -profit publishing group affiliated with the Fondo government of Cultura Ecónomica (FCE).
Sheinbaum noted that the previous federal government had developed a national reading strategy in collaboration with the FCE and said that its administration “wanted to promote it (with) reading clubs” and “reading groups”.
I am in the latest criticisms of the book “Journal of a historical transition”. Today, I finished the prologue; I hope that in a few months, I can share it with you. pic.twitter.com/qq19wx95qa
– Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) March 12, 2025
Sheinbaum published an image of her working on her book, “Diary of a Historic Transition”, in early March.
Reading is “essential to the development of creativity, minds with knowledge,” she said.
Sheinbaum noted that Taibo sought to expand the access of the Mexicans to reading, including by trying to make books cheaper to buy.
At Launch of the national reading strategy in 2019Taibo said that “the doors will be open so that there are access to reading for millions of Mexicans who do not have access to various reasons today.”
“We are going to make books extremely cheap, we will give books. And not only that, we will force the entire publishing industry to reduce their prices,” said the writer born in Spanish.
Do not call Sheinbaum ‘Mexico City Merkel’!
Answering a question from the same journalist about his personal reading habits, Sheinbaum revealed that she was currently reading the autobiography of the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“I have read it for some time because the truth is that I sometimes don’t have much time,” she said.
Merkel – Chancellor between 2005 and 2021 and, like Sheinbaum, a scientist – published his book “Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021At the end of last year.
“Although we do not agree with her reflection on many things – she is a more conservative woman who promotes the neoliberal model (Merkel) is a woman who had a very important meaning, not only for Germany, but for Europe,” said Sheinbaum.
Although Merkel has represented the conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany and Sheinbaum represents the Party of the left Morena, the two leaders share certain characteristics, including their training as scientists and the fact that the two were elected as the first heads of state of the respective countries.
The most direct comparison may have come to the title of An article by Welle German 2024 That said: “A ‘Angela Merkel’ in Mexico: it’s Claudia Sheinbaum.”
The president of Mexico clearly indicated Wednesday that she does not particularly like the comparison.
By the editor -in -chief of Mexico News Daily Peter Davies ((Protected by e-mail)))
