Former Sheinbaum advisor Ernestina Godoy sworn in as attorney general

Ernestina Godoy, a erstwhile Mexico City lawyer wide and ineligible advisor to President Claudia Sheinbaum, was sworn successful arsenic national lawyer wide connected Wednesday aft the Mexican Senate approved her appointment.

Godoy, who was appointed interim lawyer wide aft Alejandro Gertz Manero resigned past week, was 1 of 3 pistillate candidates connected a abbreviated database submitted to the Senate by Sheinbaum.

El día de hoy, tras comparecer ante el pleno del Senado de la República, como parte de un proceso democrático, rendí protesta como Fiscal General de la República (FGR). Desde que decidí dedicar mi vida al servicio público, siempre helium tenido claro que la procuración de justicia es… pic.twitter.com/AP6CeCt8Nq

— Ernestina Godoy Ramos (@ErnestinaGodoy_) December 3, 2025

Senators from the ruling Morena enactment and its allies were joined by the six Citizens’ Movement enactment senators arsenic good arsenic 3 National Action Party (PAN) senators successful voting successful favour of the assignment of Godoy to a nine-year word arsenic lawyer general.

The last ballot number was 97 votes successful favour and 19 against, with 11 senators casting invalid votes.

Lilly Téllez and Ricardo Anaya, some of whom correspond the PAN, were among the senators who invalidated their votes. “No to the mafiocracy,” Téllez wrote connected her ballot.

Before the Senate voted to name her arsenic Mexico’s 2nd pistillate lawyer general, Godoy presented her imaginativeness for the role.

She said that a Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) she leads would person “open doors” and wouldn’t “fabricate culprits” oregon prosecute successful a run of “political persecution.”

“But I archer you now,” Godoy added. “There volition beryllium nary impunity.”

Godoy besides pledged that an FGR she leads volition coordinate intimately with national and authorities authorities, arsenic Sheinbaum advocated successful remarks past week.

“An Attorney General’s Office that acts unsocial is destined to fail,” she said.

“Autonomy is strengthened with coordination, quality and the imaginativeness of the state,” Godoy said, adding that the FGR would not conscionable collaborate with information authorities, specified arsenic the Omar García Harfuch-led national Security Ministry, but besides authorities Attorney General’s Offices, quality rights organizations and commissions, and “other institutions.”

The FGR, however, won’t beryllium subordinated by immoderate authority, she stressed.

“Justice is not negotiated,” Godoy said.

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

She besides said that “the conduct” of the FGR “must beryllium humanist” and based connected “love for the homeland, honesty, a vocation of service, respect for quality rights, professionalism and efficacy.”

The “true challenge,” she said, is to “reestablish citizens’ confidence” successful the FGR and the transportation of justice.

“And that’s achieved with transparency, with accountability, with decisions based connected evidence, with respect for quality rights, with verifiable results,” Godoy said.

She besides said that successful bid to combat organized transgression — a immense situation for the national authorities — the state needs an FGR that doesn’t conscionable analyse people, but besides “the wealth trail.”

Among the high-profile unresolved cases Godoy inherits arsenic lawyer wide 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.

Opposition questions Godoy’s closeness to Sheinbaum and Morena

Opposition senators asserted that the process to prime a caller lawyer wide from the 3 candidates enactment guardant by Sheinbaum was a “simulation” to instal a fiscal carnala, oregon government-friendly lawyer general.

Godoy served arsenic Mexico City lawyer wide during Sheinbaum’s 2018-23 mayorship successful the capital, and much precocious served arsenic the president’s apical ineligible advisor. The 71-year-old lawyer wide and the 63-year-old president person had a adjacent moving narration for years and helped erstwhile President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) make the Morena party, which has present been successful powerfulness astatine the national level for 7 years.

Opposition senators questioned Godoy’s affiliation with Morena, a enactment she represented successful some the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. She hugged and kissed Morena senators during her quality successful the Senate connected Wednesday.

Ernestina Godoy, seen present astatine a July property conference, was President Sheinbaum’s main ineligible advisor until past week, erstwhile she resigned to instrumentality the presumption of interim lawyer general. She has present been confirmed to pb the lawyer general’s office, nary longer successful an interim capacity. (Daniel Augusto / Cuartoscuro.com)

Téllez, the PAN senator, asked Godoy whether she would “give impunity” to Morena’s Senate person Adán Augusto López Hernández, who absorption parties allege engaged successful transgression behaviour erstwhile helium was politician of Tabasco.

She besides asked the caller lawyer wide whether she would “bury investigative files” related to Andy López Beltrán, a lad of AMLO who the PAN has accused of committing a scope of crimes including substance smuggling.

Godoy emphasized her committedness to holding anyone who has committed a transgression to account, and protecting and defending victims.

López Hernández, whose information curate during his governorship successful Tabasco is present imprisoned and accused of heading up a transgression organization, was 1 of the senators who approached Godoy and gave her a hug aft she was sworn successful arsenic lawyer general, the El Universal paper reported.

The Reforma paper ran a header that claimed that Godoy is “totalmente Palacio Nacional” (totally National Palace), a play connected the “totalmente palacio” selling slogan of the Palacio de Hierro section store chain.

The accusation was that Godoy is excessively adjacent to Sheinbaum, whose bureau and residence is astatine the National Palace successful the historical halfway of Mexico City.

Sheinbaum: Godoy’s assignment volition beryllium ‘very bully for the country’

At her Thursday greeting property conference, Sheinbaum expressed her restitution with the assignment of Godoy arsenic lawyer general.

“Ernestina is an honorable woman, a large professional,” she said earlier noting Godoy’s acquisition arsenic lawyer wide successful Mexico City.

Sheinbaum went connected to accidental that she believes that the support of Godoy arsenic lawyer wide volition beryllium “very bully for the country.”

“… There volition beryllium a batch much coordination present betwixt the Security Ministry, the Attorney General’s Office, the National Guard, and we besides anticipation that she is simply a person that strengthens the narration with the authorities Attorney General’s Offices,” she said.

Sheinbaum said that the information that the FGR is autonomous doesn’t mean determination can’t beryllium coordination with different authorities.

“Autonomy means that the [federal] enforcement doesn’t power the decisions of the Federal Attorney General’s Office,” she said.

“But we privation coordination to warrant bid and information successful the state … and trim impunity,” Sheinbaum said.

With reports from Milenio, Reforma, La Jornada and El Universal