Attorney General’s Office must transform ‘for the good of Mexico,’ Sheinbaum says: Friday’s mañanera recapped

The resignation of Alejandro Gertz Manero as Mexico’s lawyer wide was a cardinal absorption of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Friday greeting property conference.

Sheinbaum besides spoke astir the pistillate who appears astir apt to go the adjacent national lawyer general.

In addition, she advocated for a much collaborative and transparent Federal Attorney General’s Office.

Sheinbaum offered lawyer wide an ambassadorship 

Asked astir the resignation of Gertz Manero, Sheinbaum told reporters that she had offered an ambassadorship to the 86-year-old and helium accepted.

“Soon we’re going to accidental wherever he’s going due to the fact that determination has to beryllium a process betwixt the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the [host] country,” she said.

“Until the credentials are accepted, [the big country] can’t beryllium announced, that’s a rule,” Sheinbaum said.

Attorney General Gertz resigns aft astir 7 scandal-filled years connected the job

According to media reports, Gertz — lawyer wide since January 2019 — volition go Mexico’s ambassador to Germany.

Opposition politicians and media commentators person claimed that Gertz was pushed retired of the lawyer general’s relation successful a powerfulness drawback by the Sheinbaum administration.

Among them was Senator Alejandro Moreno, nationalist president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

“I profoundly regret the coup question that the narco-politicians of [the] Morena [party] launched against [Gertz]. It is yet different motion of the authoritarian look of this regime, which seeks to enforce a violent and communist narco-dictatorship successful Mexico,” helium wrote connected X.

Sheinbaum wants much coordination betwixt her medication and the ‘autonomous’ FGR

Sheinbaum said she hopes determination volition beryllium “even much coordination” betwixt the antithetic departments of her authorities and the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) erstwhile a caller lawyer wide has been appointed connected a imperishable basis.

Ernestina Godoy, a erstwhile Mexico City lawyer wide who served arsenic Sheinbaum’s apical ineligible advisor during the past year, has replaced Gertz connected an interim basis. She is considered the favourite to go Mexico’s adjacent main instrumentality enforcement official. If appointed to the relation connected a imperishable alternatively than interim basis, Godoy volition go the country’s 2nd pistillate lawyer wide aft Marisela Morales.

Ernestina Godoy served arsenic the Mexico City lawyer wide anterior to becoming President Sheinbaum’s main ineligible advisor. (File photo)

Sheinbaum said that the FGR and the Attorney General’s Offices successful Mexico’s 32 national entities are “fundamental” to the occurrence of the national government’s information strategy due to the fact that it is “ultimately” up to them to initiate and transportation retired transgression investigations, and to petition hunt and apprehension warrants from judges.

“Even though the Attorney General’s Office is autonomous — I’ve ever thought that — coordination betwixt the Ministry of Public Security, the National Guard and the Attorney General’s Office is cardinal successful bid to proceed making advancement toward a harmless state with justice,” she said.

“This coordination is precise important for us. … It was already happening, but I anticipation that now, erstwhile the caller lawyer wide is appointed, that determination volition beryllium adjacent much coordination, due to the fact that it is the work of the Mexican government, the [federal and state] Attorney General’s Offices, and the judiciary to beforehand information and bid successful our country,” Sheinbaum said.

The judiciary present includes the judges, magistrates and Supreme Court justices who were elected successful Mexico’s archetypal ever judicial elections connected June 1.

Godoy is ‘an bonzer woman,’ says Sheinbaum

Asked whether she would similar to spot Godoy arsenic Mexico’s adjacent lawyer general, Sheinbaum noted that it volition beryllium up to the Senate to decide.

The president, however, volition taxable a database of 3 candidates to the precocious location of Congress, which volition prime a successor for Gertz via a two-thirds bulk vote.

Sheinbaum indicated that she would precise overmuch similar to spot her erstwhile ineligible advisor arsenic national lawyer general.

The president took clip astatine her Friday greeting league to stock a conception of the Mexican Constitution guaranteeing the autarkic presumption of the national Attorney General’s Office and the requirements to clasp the presumption of lawyer general. (Gabriel Monroy / Presidencia)

“Ernestina is an bonzer woman,” she said of Godoy, who served arsenic Mexico City lawyer wide during Sheinbaum’s 2018-23 mayorship successful the capital.

The president besides said that Godoy is an “honest” pistillate “of principles” and “many convictions.”

“She demonstrated her [ability to get] results erstwhile she was lawyer wide of Mexico City,” Sheinbaum said.

Among the high-profile unresolved cases Godoy inherits arsenic acting lawyer wide — and which she volition beryllium tasked with advancing if she is appointed to the relation connected a much imperishable ground — are those involving the disappearance of 43 teacher’s assemblage students successful Guerrero successful 2014 and corruption allegations against erstwhile Pemex CEO Emilio Lozoya, who has been awaiting proceedings for years.

Sheinbaum: The FGR needs ‘a translation for the bully of Mexico’

Sheinbaum told reporters that her “personal opinion” is that the Federal Attorney General’s Office needs a “transformation for the bully of Mexico.”

Such a transformation, she added, would entail the FGR becoming “more transparent.”

“I judge that volition beryllium up to the lawyer wide who … is appointed by the Senate,” Sheinbaum said.

She besides said that it volition beryllium up to the adjacent lawyer wide to determine what the FGR’s priorities volition be.

Sheinbaum herself identified substance smuggling arsenic a transgression she believes the FGR should absorption on.

“It’s precise important for each the investigations to proceed and that those named successful the probe files beryllium brought to justice,” she said.

Sheinbaum besides indicated that the prosecution of “high-impact crimes” specified arsenic execution and kidnapping, arsenic good arsenic “white-collar crime,” should beryllium a precedence for the FGR.