(29 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City – 28 May 2025
1. Various of Mexican Supreme Court Justice Lenia Batres shaking hands with supporters at final event of judicial election campaign
2. Supporter chanting, UPSOUND (Spanish): "The people’s justice"
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lenia Batres, Mexican Supreme Court justice and candidate:
"If we already have a supportive administration and a Congress that passes laws in favor of the people, then we also need to have judges who will rule in lawsuits in favor of people who are not granted any of these rights (they are entitled to)."
4. Supporters listening to speech
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lenia Batres, Mexican Supreme Court justice and candidate:
"What is the judiciary for? If we allow such corruption (in the judiciary), we are allowing it for a judiciary dedicated to delivering injustice."
6. Supporter applauding, UPSOUND (Spanish): "She does represent me"
7. Close of supporter recording Batres on phone
8. Supporters chanting as Batres stands on stage
9. Supporters cheering and applauding
10. Close of mock ballot showing Batres’ candidate number (03)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City – 28 May 2025
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11. Pan on final event of Justice Yasmín Esquivel’s judicial election campaign
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yasmín Esquivel, Mexican Supreme Court justice and candidate:
"Today, Mexico demands justice throughout our country, Mexico demands a transformation of the judiciary, and that is why we are here today."
13. Performer dancing next to Esquivel supporters
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yasmín Esquivel, Mexican Supreme Court justice and candidate:
"We want the transformation project to reach the judiciary as well, where it has not yet reached. Therefore, I remind you that next Sunday, June 1, in four days, we will hold the most important elections in our history."
15. Performers wearing costumes walking past Esquivel supporters
STORYLINE:
Two candidates for Mexico’s Supreme Court closed their campaigns Wednesday, ahead of the country’s first judicial elections on June 1.
Lenia Batres and Yasmín Esquivel are both sitting Supreme Court justices vying to stay in office under the new system.
They are among more than 7,700 candidates competing for more than 2,600 positions at all levels of the judiciary.
Judges and court staff previously earned their positions through merit and experience.
Batres and Esquivel were nominated for the high court by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who led the push for the overhaul.
The highly popular leader was long at odds with Mexican courts, which regularly struck down reform proposals and halted projects they called an overreach of executive power.
The vote comes as power in Mexico has been increasingly concentrated in López Obrador’s popular successor and protege, Claudia Sheinbaum, and as organized crime wields significant political influence in many parts of the country.
Sheinbaum and López Obrador have asserted that by popularly electing judges, they can root out corruption in the judiciary and bring the branch closer to the people.
Critics worry that electing judges will weaken checks and balances on government and stack the courts in favor of the ruling party.
Hundreds more positions will be elected in 2027.
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