MCCI asks judges for opaque

The Organization Mexican Civilians Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) has promoted an injunction against more than 200 judges and judges of Chihuahua not to make public all the sentences that are pronounced. they issued, which, considered, generates bad

According to the agency, between January 2016 and July 2018, the judiciary of this state issued 87 thousand 954 awards, of which only made public thousand 687, ie less than two percent, for which he filed the appeal, which was admitted for treatment on July 25 by Matilde del Carmen González Barbosa, judge of the tenth district in Chihuahua. In addition, he will ask that the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation determine what must be understood by a judgment of public interest.

In this regard, Gerardo Carrasco Chávez, director of strategic litigation at MCCI, said the lack of transparency and accountability incentives for public officials to commit acts of corruption.

The courts of Chihuahua publish only a small number of sentences; the dissemination of the rest of the resolutions is at the discretion of each judge. This reflects a total opacity in Chihuahua and a potential risk of commission of acts of corruption, "he said.

For Carrasco, the less judges and magistrates resolve themselves" the less incentives will be in order that these officials are impartial, because their work will be outside the control of the citizen. "

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