Sheinbaum welcomes new ambassadors and counts down to June 1: Monday’s mañanera recapped

The acceptance of letters of credence from caller ambassadors to Mexico and the upcoming judicial elections were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Monday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s May 19 mañanera.

Sheinbaum accepts missive of credence from caller US ambassador 

Sheinbaum told reporters that she would invited caller ambassadors to the National Palace, including caller U.S. ambassador Ronald Johnson, successful the aboriginal afternoon.

Shortly earlier 2:30 p.m., she posted a photograph to societal media that showed her with Johnson on with a missive of credence from United States President Donald Trump.

The president connected Monday besides accepted letters of credence from the ambassadors to Mexico of Algeria, the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Slovakia.

At Sheinbaum’s mañanera, a newsman said that Johnson — a erstwhile U.S. ambassador to El Salvador — has been “very active” since helium arrived successful Mexico, noting that helium had meal with an “ultra right-winger,” Eduardo Verástegui.

Sheinbaum with Ambassador Ronald Johnson connected Monday. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

Mexico’s richest person, Carlos Slim, was besides reportedly astatine the meal hosted by Verástegui, a well-known actor, singer, pro-life advocator and person of an ultra-conservative governmental movement. He made an effort to contention the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination successful Mexico, but the National Electoral Institute rejected his candidacy aft helium failed to accumulate the full fig of signatures required to conscionable the eligibility requirements.

Sheinbaum didn’t remark connected Johnson’s meal with Verástegui, who the caller U.S. ambassador described arsenic his “brother.”

Instead, she reiterated that her medication wants a “good narration with the United States government.”

Sheinbaum said past week that erstwhile she saw the caller ambassador, she would petition “a batch of coordination” and “collaboration” betwixt Mexico and the United States arsenic good arsenic a “relationship of respect.”

Sheinbaum predicts ample turnout astatine June 1 judicial elections 

Sheinbaum noted that Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections are conscionable 2 weeks away.

“We’re precise happy, I’m precise happy, due to the fact that determination volition beryllium wide and escaped participation,” she said.

“… The radical volition determine who they privation to beryllium portion of the judicial branch, [it’s] unprecedented,” Sheinbaum said.

“And I’m besides blessed due to the fact that determination is simply a batch of unity betwixt the authorities and the people,” she added.

Later successful the property conference, Sheinbaum conceded she didn’t person an “approximate” fig connected however galore radical volition ballot successful the judicial elections.

However, “when polls are done … fractional of the radical accidental they’re going to vote,” she said.

“… We person to hold and spot what the turnout is. It’s amended that the radical [elect judges] than conscionable a fewer oregon the president,” Sheinbaum said.

The judicial elections volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, June 1, aft past year’s support by Congress of a arguable judicial reform. Citizens volition elite Supreme Court justices arsenic good arsenic different judges.

Sheinbaum argues that elections are indispensable to escaped the judiciary of ills specified arsenic corruption and nepotism. She said earlier this period that holding judicial elections is “a precise antiauthoritarian mode to cleanable up the judicial power, … to enactment an extremity to this nepotism, corruption, and these judges that merchandise criminals from organized transgression with impunity.”

There are a scope of concerns astir the fashionable predetermination of judges, including that the ruling Morena enactment volition effort to stack the courts with judges sympathetic to their origin and that organized transgression groups could efficaciously instal judges by pressuring oregon coercing citizens to ballot for their preferred candidates.

“It’s amended that the radical [elect judges] than conscionable a fewer oregon the president,” Sheinbaum reiterated connected Monday. (Moisés Pablo/Cuartoscuro)

‘Our enactment for Marina del Pilar’

Sheinbaum reiterated her enactment for Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila, whose United States tourer visa, on with that of her husband, was revoked this month.

“Our enactment for Marina del Pilar. She has done precise bully enactment astatine the caput of the Baja California government,” she said.

Sheinbaum said that the Federal Attorney General’s Office had nary accusation that indicated that the politician was nether probe successful the United States.

There is speculation that Ávila, via her hubby Carlos Torres Torres, has links to a wealth laundering network, but the politician denies she has “done thing wrong.”

“She does bully work, the radical similar her a lot,” Sheinbaum said. “I’ve seen it, I’ve noticed it portion successful Baja California.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])