Who is Ernestina Godoy, new interim Prosecutor?

Between January 2020 and January 2024 he served as first Attorney General of Justice of Mexico Cityafter having been appointed in 2018 as head of the Attorney General’s Office by the then Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaumleading the institutional transition process towards the new Prosecutor’s Office.

His management at the head of the Prosecutor’s Office was marked by various controversies.

In the event of the collapse of the Metro Line 12faced questions because the investigation did not reach senior officials responsible for the work, which generated criticism about possible omissions in the definition of responsibilities.

She was also singled out for alleged political espionageafter opponents spread requests for telephone information from PAN leadersinterpreted as an improper use of the Prosecutor’s Office to persecute adversaries.

At the end of his term, his attempt at ratification was rejected in the capital congress by not reaching the required votes, a setback that his critics attributed to the accumulation of controversies during his Administration.

In 2018 she was in the capital Congress, where she was coordinator of the Morena Parliamentary Group y president of the Political Coordination Board.

Before, during 63rd Legislaturewas a federal representative for Mexico City.

Her legislative career began as a local representative in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District between 2012 and 2015.

In the Public Administration of Mexico City she held various positions: she was General Director of Legal Affairs and Legislative Studies of the Legal Department of the then Federal District; coordinator of Legal Affairs of the Social Attorney’s Office, and director of Delegational Development in Iztapalapa.

From his first years of professional practice he was linked to civil organizations dedicated to the defense of human rights and citizen participation.

She was founder of the National Democratic Lawyers Associationof Civic Alliance and of the Convergence of Civil Organizations for Democracy.

After the 1985 earthquake, he opened an office to provide free legal advice to victims and later participated as a social representative in the Monitoring Commission of the San Andrés Agreements between the EZLN and the federal government.