Mexico Criticizes OAS Report on Judicial Elections and Defends Its Sovereignty
OAS electoral observers sent to the country for the election of the Judiciary on June 1. Photo: X
June 7, 2025 Hour: 1:55 pm
The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the Organization of American States (OAS), expressed its rejection of the preliminary report of the observers sent to the country for the election of the judiciary on 1 June.
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In the diplomatic note addressed to the Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin of Suriname, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the EOM “exceeded its mandate and engaged in actions contrary to the principles of the Charter of the Organization.”
The Mexican response comes after the OAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) recommended on Friday “not to replicate the Mexican model of popular election of judges and magistrates in other countries in the region.”
In particular, the Mexican government cited Article 3 (e), which states: “every State has the right to choose, without external interference, its political, economic and social system, and to organize itself in the way that best suits it.”
The Mexican government stressed that an OAS observation mission “does not have the power to try to impose its own criteria on how countries, in the use of their sovereignty, should form their judicial branch. Even less so, to issue value judgments that exceed its powers.”
And, it added, that as the report itself points out, the organization of the electoral process and the holding of the June 1 elections “strictly adhered to the constitutional norms and electoral laws in force in Mexico.”
On Sunday, June 1st, Mexico held its first elections for more than 880 federal judicial positions, including the election of nine ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), resulting from a constitutional reform by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024).
