Will elections for judges make Mexico the ‘most democratic country in the world’? Critics fear the opposite
- Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
On Sunday, Mexico will hold an unprecedented election, becoming the first country in the world to allow voters to elect judges at every level.
Voters will elect approximately half the judges in the country on June 1 – from the nine members of the Supreme Court down to 850 federal judges and thousands more at lower levels. In 2027, a second...
