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Senate Confirms Ernestina Godoy as Mexico’s Attorney General for Nine-Year Term

She begins a nine-year term pledging victim-centered, evidence-based prosecutions with zero tolerance for torture.

Overview

  • The Senate elected Godoy 97–19 with 11 null ballots after President Claudia Sheinbaum sent an all-woman shortlist of Ernestina Godoy, Luz María Zarza and Maribel Bojorges.
  • Godoy immediately moved to reorganize the FGR, naming Héctor Elizalde Mora to lead the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) and César Oliveros Aparicio to head the organized crime unit (FEMDO).
  • In her confirmation remarks, she vowed no fabrication of suspects, no political persecution and a focus on securing convictions through solid evidence and intelligence analysis.
  • Her confirmation drew votes from Morena, PT, PVEM and Movimiento Ciudadano after she accepted MC’s public decálogo of commitments, while opposition lawmakers criticized the rapid process.
  • Sheinbaum praised Godoy’s integrity and forecast closer coordination among the FGR, the Security Ministry and the National Guard following Alejandro Gertz Manero’s resignation for a diplomatic post.