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Mexico City, June 29 (EFE).- The head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) of Mexico, Alejandro Gertz, considered this Sunday that the country will enter a "long period of reforms" to the justice system, with the aim of correcting legal loopholes and strengthening the fight against organized crime.
During a press conference of the federal Security Cabinet, Gertz detailed that a legal reconfiguration of the justice framework has already begun, following the 2024 reform, which led to the first elections of the Judiciary of the Federation (PJF), in which more than 800 positions were elected by popular vote, including nine ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
The prosecutor explained that some reforms are under discussion within Congress, without specifying which ones, and that these changes seek to make judicial procedures transparent, expand institutional coverage, and improve the capacity to respond to high-impact crimes.
"Everything that comes out of here from now on will be transparent," he emphasized.
The reforms, he assured, will be gradual and will respond to the needs that arise as the threats of organized crime and the social demand for more effective justice evolve.
"We are going to have to do what society is asking, according to how the attacks on the community are moving (...) I believe that we are heading for a long period of reforms that will have to enter at all levels as needed," he said.
For his part, he acknowledged that the past elections of June 1st left a democratic judicial system, "much more open and with more capacity and obligation to be accountable".
Before, the prosecutor, with the support of the head of the Security Cabinet of the Government of Mexico, Omar García Harfuch, presented the results of a joint operation that dismantled one of the main criminal organizations dedicated to the theft and illicit commercialization of hydrocarbons in the central region of the country.
The operation, authorities detailed, consisted of simultaneous actions in Mexico City, State of Mexico, and Querétaro.
Among the results, authorities arrested 32 people and seized 12 properties used as criminal operation centers, 21 tractor-trailers, 14 semi-trailers, 14 tank containers, eight tankers, 48 vehicles, a bus, 12 motorcycles, 36 firearms, as well as a warehouse with drugs and controlled medications.
