CHETUMAL — The Legislature of Social Justice swore in the women and men who will integrate the new popularly elected Judiciary in the first minutes of September 1, an event described as one that will undoubtedly mark the history of Quintana Roo.
The event, held during an extraordinary session, was attended by the Secretary of Government, Cristina Torres Gómez, representing Governor Mara Lezama, and Magistrate Heyden Cebada Rivas, representing the Judiciary.
The Deputy and President of the Board of Government and Political Coordination, Jorge Sanén Cervantes, stated that for the first time, the administration of justice has not only legal legitimacy but also democratic legitimacy, as justice in Quintana Roo now carries the indelible stamp of the popular will.
“Today more than ever, social justice must be the guiding principle of your work. Social justice means that institutions forget no one, that rights are enforced, that families live with certainty, and that the people of Quintana Roo know they have judges who watch over their dignity, as promoted by Governor Mara Lezama,” he asserted.
Sanén Cervantes stated that the swearing-in of the new Judiciary members is a historic event that consolidates a Judiciary closer to the people.
He told those taking the oath that the people have entrusted them with this high responsibility and it is to the people they must answer with work, rectitude, and results.
The legislator asked the new judges that, starting today with this new Judiciary, they make their most sacred principle the conviction that in Quintana Roo, crime is punished but poverty is never punished again.
“Because for too long justice was absent for those who needed it most, because in the past there were those who were forgotten, those who were denied their right to justice,” he added.
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