Mexico City, Jan 3 (AP) Mexico’s Supreme Court elected the primary feminine chief justice in its historical past Monday.

Justice Norma Lucía Piña was sworn in for her four-year time period on the head of the 11-member courtroom, pledging to keep up the independence of the nation’s highest courtroom.

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“Judicial independence is indispensable in resolving conflicts between the branches of government,” Piña mentioned Monday in laying out her plans. “My main proposal is to work to build majorities, leaving aside my personal vision.”

As chief justice, Piña will even head the whole judicial department. She is just not thought-about an ally of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and opposition events welcomed her election.

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The 6-5 vote by her fellow ministers Monday got here regardless of stress by López Obrador on the ministers.

López Obrador had backed one other feminine justice, Yasmín Esquivel, for the highest submit. But indications emerged not too long ago that Justice Esquivel might have plagiarized an instructional paper to get her bachelor’s diploma within the late Nineteen Eighties.

The public college the place she bought that diploma continues to be finding out the case; her thesis, offered in 1987, was similar to 1 offered a yr earlier. Esquivel claimed the sooner thesis copied her later work.

The president has pushed various controversial legal guidelines by Congress, solely to see them blocked by the courts, and getting an ally elected as chief justice was seen as key for López Obrador.

On Monday, he claimed “the judicial branch has been kidnapped … has been eclipsed by money, by economic power.”

However, Sen. Olga Cordero, López Obrador’s former Interior Secretary, welcomed Piña’s election.

“Now is the time of human rights, the time for women,” Cordero wrote in her social media accounts. (AP)

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