Candidate

When the drivers sit on the movement of America connecting Mexico with the US, Sylvia Delgad is woven between cars that give off leaflets.

“I’m standing for punishment,” she says vividly. “Vote for number 12 in the ballots!”

Most gladly twist their windows and takes the leaflet from it. But on a fairly unique election on Sunday – the first of the two votes by which the Mexicans will Choose the entire country’s forensic system on the direct newsletter – Sylvia Delgada is not an ordinary candidate.

Noticeably absent in a short biography on her brochures is the name of her most famous client: she was a defender Hoaquin “El Chap” Guzman.

Her critics say her past, defending the leader of Cartel Sinaloa, should save her from becoming a judge. It gives this idea short sharp.

“Why is this? For your work?” She replies that her Hecles immediately rose on any proposal of the conflict of interest.

“For the protection of people engaged in people? For proper technical protection for a person? Why should this make me illegitimate?” she asks.

Sylvia Delgada was not convicted of any crime, does not face the allegations and is not under the investigation -whether on her ties with El -Chap or anything else.

But the leading human rights organization and transparency in Mexico, called Defensorxs, included it in the list of 19 “candidates for high risk” in the elections. Like Ms Delgada, the list includes a drug conviction and another charge of arranging journalists.

Defensorxs director Miguel Alfonso Mesa believes that the so -called “high -risk candidates” are a danger to the legitimacy of the Mexico justice system:

“Someone who has already worked with a cartel is very difficult to get out, even if it was just a lawyer. It is not about whether she is a good person or a bad person,” Mr. Mesis says, citing Sylvia delga.

“The Sinaloa cartel is not just “El -Chap” Guzman. It is a company that has criminal and economic interests that are resolved in the justice system. The cartel can pressure her to show loyalty because she was already their employees. “

Sylvia Delgada is markedly obscured when mentioning Defensorxs and Miguel Alfonso Meza.

“It’s completely stupid,” she sniffs, claiming that she caused them “to dig into the past as much as they like.” She also rejects their main accusation that she was paid for drugs and can be broken if she is elected by a judge.

“How can you prove that? I received a payment that was the same as any ordinary monthly payment that my lawyers paid me. I am a professional. “

Ms Delgada competes for one of the more than 7,500 court positions – from local magistrates to all nine judges of the Supreme Court.

While it was discussed, the judicial reform has provoked broad protests by law science students and staff strike in the legal system. His critics claim that he chose each judge in Mexico means politicizing the justice system.

“Of course, this is a political attack (on the judicial system),” says Miguel Alfonso Mesa.

“Former President Andres Manuel Lopez Abrador did not want to have restrictions in the judiciary. If the pressure became too high and the restrictions are too tough, the only decision was to remove all judges in the country,” he adds.

This reform has been transferred earlier President Claudia Sheinbaum It was an oath, but she is a supporter of it, and polls believe he also has a wide approval among the electorate.

Proponents note that the US, Switzerland and Bolivia choose many of its judges. But Mexico will become the first country in the world that has chosen them all. The markets remain unconvincing with investors who fear the prospects of the ruling party, which controls the post of president, the legislative department and the judiciary.

Miguel Alfonso Meza believes that the problems will arise with “agreements and negotiations that judges must conclude with political subjects … to get the support needed to win the elections.”

One of the 64 candidates looking for a place in the Supreme Court is Olivia Agire Bunila. Also, from Sudad Juarez, her legal origin in human rights and as an activist against gender violence in the sad border town.

Like all candidates, Ms. Agir Bunila had to pay for her company from her own pocket – the candidates are forbidden to accept public or private financing and prohibited from purchasing advertising places. Thus, it primarily used social media to pull your 6-point plan from the transition to the salary before the Supreme Court’s hearing for the public.

While she acknowledges criticism about the potential policy of the Mexico justice system, Agir Bunila believes that the vote is an opportunity for a significant change in the burned, damaged and non -standing judicial system.

“I think all citizens in Mexico are politicized and we are all part of public life,” she says.

“The difference here is that our” untouchable “legal system – and it was untouchable because it was controlled by elites by privilege – for the first time in history will be voted. It will be democratized through voting.”

Many people in the judicial system were there through influence and family ties, according to Agir Bonila, and it lacks the legitimacy of the executive and legislative branches.

“This vote will give justice true independence, because it is not elected president of the republic, but elected by the Mexico people to represent them.”

So far, the arguments for constitutionality and legitimacy compared to the process and candidates were bitter and rigid.

Now all eyes turn to polling stations, especially in terms of turnout and abstinence as Mexican support for reform.

As for Sylvia Delgada, a woman who defended the most desirable Lord of drugs Mexico, she just hopes that the people of here Hwarez respects her work enough to allow her to sit in the opinion of other criminals who brought to her.