Two women wearing hats take part in campaign activities, one riding a horse and the other holding a sign and giving a thumbs-up. — Just a few days before the political-judicial circus begins | DR

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Morena senators are intensifying their activism to control the judicial election.

Ruling party legislators promote voting with accordions and propaganda to impose like-minded judges

27/05/2025 17:26:00h

Editorial Team

On June 1, Mexico will experience an unprecedented election to renew the Judicial Branch. Far from being a democratic celebration, Morena has turned the process into a political operation to ensure that the elected judges, magistrates, and justices respond to its interests.

Morena senators such as Gerardo Fernández Noroña, Citlalli Hernández, and Nora Ruvalcaba have led brigades, rallies, and informational campaigns on social media to "encourage participation." In reality, they distribute lists with specific names so that citizens vote for candidates close to the regime.

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The streets of several states already display banners with judicial propaganda. Legislators repeat speeches about the "transformation of justice," without mentioning candidates, experience, or independence.

At its core, the aim is to subjugate the Judicial Branch and secure loyalties, not capabilities.

Promotion disguised as democracy

Cheat sheets, pamphlets, and videos with voting recommendations circulate unchecked, violating the principle of neutrality. INE has warned about these practices, but the government has ignored the warnings under the pretext of "freedom of expression."

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President Claudia Sheinbaum calls for "transparency." However, she allows her caucus to use public resources to manipulate an election that should be citizen-driven.
They talk about democracy, but they act with party discipline and control.

Judicial Branch tailored to order

Morena seeks to obtain 20 million votes. Not to democratize, but to legitimize the subjugation of the Judicial Branch to the officialist project. Thus, a judicial structure subordinated to the Executive is imposed, under a narrative of "popular justice" that conceals the imposition of political operatives.

Justice is not chosen with cheat sheets or party propaganda. What Morena promotes is not citizen participation, but a soft blow against the separation of powers.

The regime has disguised a political operation as a democratic exercise. What is at stake is not just a vote, but the future of justice in Mexico. To hand over the Judicial Branch topartisan interestsis to relinquish the constitutional balance that protects citizens from the abuse of power.

If power also concentrates justice, what follows is total impunity. The June 1 election is not a democratic celebration: it is an attempt by a single force to seize all power, without checks and without shame.

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