Overview
- Mónica Aralí Soto Fregoso concluded her term as president of Mexico’s electoral tribunal with a pledge of an orderly, transparent transition that safeguards jurisdictional and administrative work.
- Gilberto Bátiz García is scheduled to assume the TEPJF presidency on November 1, while Soto will continue serving as a magistrate on the Sala Superior.
- Soto highlighted that her tenure covered the qualification of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s presidential election and the validation of Mexico’s first judicial election.
- The integration of magistrates Claudia Valle Aguilasocho and Gilberto Bátiz García, elected in Judicial Branch elections, was cited as bolstering continuity of the court’s work.
- Soto recognized Janine Otálora Malassis as concluding her service at the end of October and reported that the tribunal maintained sessions without quorum issues while strengthening internal processes and cooperation with local electoral authorities.