2023-11-07 22:27:06
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican judge Arturo Zaldívar, who is identified as progressive, announced on Tuesday that he presented his resignation as minister of the Supreme Court of Justice to the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who if he accepts it must present in in the coming weeks a proposal of possible candidates.
“My cycle on the Court has ended,” Zaldívar said in a message he published on the social network
During his fourteen years on the Supreme Court, Zaldívar, who was identified by some analysts as close to López Obrador, maintained an avant-garde stance by supporting the decriminalization of abortion and by his pronouncement in favor of regulating marijuana consumption.
The minister was involved in a controversy in 2021 when López Obrador promoted an initiative to extend his term as president for two years, which Zaldívar rejected.
Regarding his future plans, the minister, who held the presidency of the highest court between 2019 and 2022, did not offer further details and only indicated that he will continue working “on the consolidation of the transformation of a fairer and more egalitarian Mexico, in which they are priority those who have the least and need it most.”
The minister attracted media attention by posting some videos on TikTok and more recently by expressing his fondness for the popular American singer Taylor Swift, which sparked some criticism once morest him.
Zaldívar’s departure occurs in the midst of the strained relations that López Obrador maintains with the Supreme Court, which have been tense in recent months following the ministers invalidated the energy and electoral reforms and the transfer of the National Guard to the Army that the president urged.
Among the eleven ministers of the Court, López Obrador has always had the support of ministers Loretta Ortiz and Yasmín Esquivel, who at the beginning of this year was involved in a scandal due to the alleged plagiarism of her bachelor’s thesis that is still being debated. in courts.
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