He last November 27hours before announcing that he was resigning from his position as Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero He made a castling that allowed Ernestina Godoy to remain as the internal Prosecutor of the FGR.
Gertz Manero dismissed Cristina Reséndiz Durriti as the head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Competition Control, and appointed Ernestina Godoy in her place.
The above, according to the article 21 of the Organic Law of the FGR, It allowed Godoy to be the new interim Prosecutor, automatically, after the resignation of Gertz Manero.
In less than a week the Senate carried out all the necessary procedures, together with the federal Executive, so that Ernestina Godoy was chosen.
Of the November 28 to 30, The Senate received the records of those who aspired to be the new boss of the FGR.
He December 1the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), chaired by the Morenoist Adán Augusto López Hernández, elected a initial list of 43 characters that met the requirements of the public call.
One day later, the December 2, the Senate elected 10 candidates to the federal executive.
LOS 10
Subsequently, the federal Executive returned a shortlist to the Upper House, which included Luz María Zarza Delgado and Maribel Bojorges Beltrán, so that finally in the Plenary Session two thirds of those present elected Godoy.
The Morena militant Mexican lawyer and politician was born in Mexico City on January 17, 1954.
Prior to being appointed by Sheinbaum as Legal Counsel on October 1, 2024, she had been elected senator, a position from which she resigned to join the federal government.
CONTROVERSIES
Between January 2020 and January 2024 served as first Attorney General of Justice of Mexico City, after having been appointed in 2018 as head of the Attorney General’s Office by the then Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum, leading 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 case of collapse of 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.
It was also pointed out by alleged political espionage, after opponents spread requests for telephone information from PAN leaders, interpreted as 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’s Congress as it did not reach the required votes, a setback that his critics attributed to the accumulation of controversies during his Administration.
CONGRESSMAN
In In 2018 he was in the capital Congress, where she was coordinator of the Morena Parliamentary Group and president of the Political Coordination Board.
Before, during the LXIII Legislature, she was 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.
OTHER CHARGES
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 Association of Democratic Lawyers, the Civic Alliance and 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.