Sheinbaum announced that he chose a shortlist of three women to head the FGR: he will define the Senate. The favorite is the person in charge of the office: Ernestina Godoy.
Mexico City, December 3 (However).– Ernestina Godoy Ramos was elected this afternoon by the Senate of the Republic with 97 votes in his favor, 19 against the shortlist and 11 null votes, as the new head of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) for a period of nine yearsafter the departure of Alejandro Gertz Manero of the institution on November 26 after the offer of a Embassy by the President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
“We will not fabricate culprits nor will there be political persecution, but from now on I tell you: There will be no impunity and zero tolerance for torture,” Godoy said in his appearance before the senators.
Ernestina Godoy was the second of the shortlist sent this morning by the President to speak on the platform and stressed that appearing before the Senate is an exercise of democratic responsibility. She said she felt honored to be on the shortlist and assured that the support she has received is not an award, but rather a mandate and an urgent demand for a Prosecutor’s Office that is up to date with the times, and that puts victims at the center to regain citizen trust.
In his message he stressed that the coordination of the Prosecutor’s Office does not imply subordination. He stressed that the Prosecutor’s Office must become an institution capable of incorporating solid evidence and intelligence analysis, technical-legal arguments that translate into the judicialization of investigation files but above all in obtaining exemplary sentences.
The election process began at noon, when the three members of the shortlist, Ernestina Godoy Ramos, Luz María Zarza Delgado and Maribel Bojorges Beltrán, arrived at the Senate Plenary. Several senators had no qualms about hiding their preferences and showed broad favoritism towards Ernestina Godoy, who, upon her arrival at the venue, was asked to take photographs.
Once the candidates took their seats, the process of questions by the parliamentary groups began. The majority of senators, mainly from the opposition, directed their questions directly to Godoy. Such was the case of the Senator of the Citizen Movement (MC), Alejandra Barrales, explained that she would direct her questions only to Godoy, as she assured that it is a process in which “the decisions are practically made” and they have no doubt that Godoy is “the one profiled.”
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced this morning that she sent the shortlist to the Senate of the Republic to define who would occupy the title of the FGR: Ernestina Godoy Ramos, Luz María Zarza Delgado and Maribel Bojorges Beltrán.
“Yes, I already sent the shortlist. There are three women,” Sheinbaum revealed this Wednesday in his morning conference from the National Palace.
–Why did you only consider three women?—the press questioned.
—Because it is women’s time—answered the President.
When Godoy takes office, Mexico will have a woman President, as well as presidents in the Chamber of Deputies – the opposition Kenia López Rabadán – and the Senate – Laura Itzel Castillo Juárez herself. The Ministry of the Interior is also headed by a woman: Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
Gertz leaves the FGR for an Embassy
Last Friday, President Sheinbaum confirmed that she offered an Embassy to Alejandro Gertz Manero to leave his position as head of the FGR and trusted that there would be more coordination with the new head of the institution, which will be defined by the Senate of the Republic in the next few hours.
“I offered the Prosecutor an Embassy and he accepted. He is about to complete seven years in the Prosecutor’s Office and he accepted to be the Ambassador of Mexico and how good,” he indicated in response to a specific question from However.
On the same Friday, Ernestina Godoy Ramos announced the end of her time as head of the Legal Department of the Federal Executive and confirmed that she had taken over as head of the FGR office, one day after Alejandro Gertz Manero formalized his resignation from the institution.
Godoy has already begun the changes within the FGR: this Tuesday he named Héctor Elizalde Mora as the new head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), the area responsible for coordinating, planning and supervising actions against crime throughout the country.