Overview
- The Veracruz Congress approved Verónica Hernández Giadáns’s resignation as state attorney general on December 8.
- The move comes after a November 25 vote, 42–5, to cut the fiscal’s term from nine to four years with a potential second term.
- The reform restores the governor’s authority to propose candidates and remove the fiscal, and it was validated by a majority of municipalities.
- Governor Rocío Nahle must now submit a three-candidate shortlist for lawmakers to choose a new prosecutor, with an interim to serve in the meantime.
- Hernández had led the FGE since 2019, succeeding Jorge Winckler, who is detained in a torture case, and lawmakers also granted Magistrate Lisbeth Aurelia Jiménez a one-year leave.