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Senate Receives Resignation of Newly Elected Jalisco Judge, Triggering Vacancy Process

The Justice Committee will issue a ruling under Article 98 to assign the seat to the next candidate on June’s winners list.

Overview

  • The Judicial Administration Body accepted and sent the resignation of Adrián Guadalupe Aguirre Hernández, a judge at the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Puente Grande, Jalisco, to the Senate.
  • An official letter dated Oct. 29 and signed by César Mauricio López Ramírez was received by the Senate on Oct. 30 and publicly acknowledged this week.
  • Senate president Laura Itzel Castillo said the Commission of Justice, chaired by Javier Corral, will handle the case and produce the ruling.
  • The resignation triggers succession by the next-ranked winner from the June judicial election, though a legal gap persists over which institution formally summons the successor.
  • The name was initially not disclosed in plenary reporting before senator Claudia Anaya identified Aguirre, and a recent reference point is the Senate’s Sept. 17 denial of a seven-month leave for Judge Irlanda Pacheco Torres.