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MEXICO (APT) .- Identified by its proximity to the elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (he advised him during the attempted removal in 2005), Judge Rafael Guerra Álvarez was elected president of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico. (TSJ-CDMX) for the period 2019-2021.
A few weeks ago, Tabasco mentioned magistrate Verónica de Gyves Zárate, wife of Guerra, as part of her triplet at the head of the Attorney General's office, alongside Bernardo Bátiz and Juan Luis González.
The next president of the TSJ-CDMX, who also has good relations with the next head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, will take office in January 2019. He will then specify his intention to head the highest court of justice of the Mexican capital, Il had already competed against Egdar Elías Azar, but lost.
This Friday, the plenary session of magistrates lasted three hours. The candidates for the Presidency of the Tribunal were, besides the winner, Manuel Díaz Infante, Celia Marín Sasaki, Rosalba Guerrero Rodríguez and Álvaro Augusto Pérez Juárez, President in office, who was trying to be re-elected.
In the first round of voting, Guerra Álvarez obtained 29 votes, Pérez Juárez 27, Díaz Infante 11, Marín Sasaki and Guerrero Rodríguez five.
Guerra Álvarez added 41 of the 77 votes – two judges were absent from the electoral process – compared to 35 from Pérez Juarez.
"By the majority of the votes established by the law, the magistrate Rafael Guerra Álvarez is declared president of the Superior Court of justice of Mexico", announced the assistant magistrate Enrique Sánchez Sandoval.
Perez Juarez, the current president, took office on March 30, 2017, when he was elected in replacement of Elías Azar, who nominally appointed him, and then went on to as Ambassador of Mexico to the Netherlands.
On October 24, former Electors of Morena, led by lawyer Javier Quijano, asked Augusto Perez to decline his request for reelection and thus avoid the violation of the Political Constitution of the capital .
In addition to his proximity to López Obrador, the next president of the TSJ-CDMX is reputed to have taken trial of the tragedy that took place at the News Divine nightclub in 2008, where a failed police operation caused the death of 12 people: nine teenagers and three police officers
The relatives of the victims accused him of having allowed impunity in this case, because 10 years later, only the owner of the establishment, Alfredo Maya Ortiz, was imprisoned and sentenced to death. 29 years old.
Guerra Álvarez, 56, graduated from UNAM and holds an international master's degree in comparative criminal systems and social systems from the University of Barcelona. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Sciences from the Institute of Advanced Legal Sciences. Since 2011, he is a magistrate of the seventh criminal chamber.
At the TSJ, he held the positions of interim caretaker "B" of the presidency, secretary of agreements and judge 19 and 64 years and magistrate of the fourth criminal chamber.
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