Magistrates and judges take the oath of office in Coahuila; Mery Ayup is ratified as president of the Partido Juventud (PJ).

SALTILLO, Coahuila (apro) .- The magistrates and judges elected on June 2 in the Coahuila Judicial Branch elections were sworn in Monday night. As Proceso previously reported, they are collaborators of the Manolo Jiménez Salinas administration, former officials, and members of organizations such as the Coahuila Institute for Access to Information, the System, and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.

The members of the Judicial Disciplinary Court and the District Court, as well as judges in the various areas, also took office.

In his message, Miguel Felipe Mery Ayup, who was ratified as president, questioned the criticisms leveled by the federal government against the judiciary at that level of government and at the state level.

"The criticisms that arose last year against the Federal Judiciary and local judiciaries are exactly proportional to the disdain and neglect they were subjected to from the perspective of a presidential state that maintained that investing in the judicial system is neither politically nor electorally profitable. That view was regrettable," he noted.

Mery Ayup also criticized the attitude of the federal and state judiciaries, who, based on their autonomy, denied transparency.

"The judiciary has also taken erroneous positions, believing that the separation of powers should be interpreted as a tool and an insurmountable barrier to coordination between branches of government, where judicial independence and autonomy were based on principles convenient to judges, preventing transparency, accountability, and citizen oversight," he added.

Mery Ayup said that Coahuila is among the 10 states in the country with the highest judicial conflict.

The ceremony was led by Governor Manolo Jiménez Salinas, who stated that this new Judiciary guarantees the continuity of the state's security model.

"It's part of the institutions where we work as a team, and where the Mexican Army is also present," he noted, adding that it's necessary to address the demands of the population "who want impartiality and swift justice. What seems very simple to us can be everything to the people," he affirmed after the swearing-in ceremony at the State Congress.

The Judiciary was also composed of the winners of the election: Yezka Garza Ramírez, Adriana Serna Calderón, Valeriano Valdés Cabello, Jesús Homero Flores Mier, Graciela Elizalde Castellanos, María Eugenia Galindo, Vladimir Kaiceros Barranco, and Lourdes Rodríguez Garza.

And those who continue are Luis Efrén Ríos Vega, María del Carmen Galván, María Luisa Valencia and José Ignacio Máynez, whose ceremony was held behind closed doors.