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Meet some of the candidates running in Mexico’s first election of judges by popular vote

(21 May 2025) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4577555 ASSOCIATED PRESS Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - 17 May 2025 1. Silvia Delgado García, former lawyer for drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, handing out flyers at Mexico-U.S. border bridge. UPSOUND (Spanish): "Hello, good afternoon. I am running for criminal judge and I am inviting you to vote for me on June 1." 2. Close of Delgado García 3. Close of Delgado García holding flyers 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Silvia Delgado García, former lawyer for drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán: ++STARTS IN PREVIOUS SHOT++ "I think they (critics) speak out of ignorance because the fact of having represented this or that person does not convert you by osmosis into that person. What I defend are the individual guarantees of people and I will do it and will continue to do it if someone asks me for help if for some reason I do not become a judge." 5. Delgado García handing out flyers, UPSOUND (Spanish): "I Invite you to vote for me on June 1." 6. Delgado García on the street ASSOCIATED PRESS Culiacan, Mexico - 17 May 2025 7. Pan on photos of missing people 8. Various of Delia Quiroa, activist searching for her missing brother, handing out flyers 9. Person holding flyer of Quiroa 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delia Quiroa, searches for her missing brother: ++STARTS IN SHOT 8++ "I decided to run (for judge) because I have experienced firsthand the abuses of the government. I don't want people to suffer what I have suffered. I want someone to be there for them and support them and help them." 11. Photo of missing person on wall 12. Quiroa handing out flyers ASSOCIATED PRESS Mexico City - 19 May 2025 13. Various of signs promoting judicial election ASSOCIATED PRESS Mexico City - 14 May 2025 14. Various close of lawyer Mauricio Tapia Maltos hanging handwritten papers promoting his candidacy, one that reads (Spanish): "I'm your candidate for magistrate. Meet me!" 15. Tapia Maltos setting up stand 16. Tapia Maltos standing at Zocalo Square; cathedral in background 17. Close of banner showing Tapia Maltos’s candidate number, Instagram account and voting district 18. Tapia Maltos answering questions from passersby 19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mauricio Tapia Maltos, lawyer at the Supreme Court: "A lot of people, even those who are not from here, see the sign, see me and say: 'We need young people, we need a generational change, we need new – I don't want to say new youth – we need new ideas in the judiciary.'" 20. Tapia Maltos explaining to man how to vote 21. Close of Tapia Maltos’s candidate number 45 written on ballot sample 22. Tapia Maltos standing in Zocalo Square; National Palace in background STORYLINE: Mexico is heading to a judicial election on June 1 - it's first ever in its history - where more than 2,600 contenders are vying for 881 positions from Mexico’s Supreme Court down to district courts across the country. Those on the June 1 ballots won a lottery after being screened by committees made up of people from the three branches of government. In order to qualify, they had to have a law degree, at least five years of professional practice, write an essay and collect letters of recommendation from friends and colleagues. Foreign governments, including the United States, and civil society organizations in Mexico criticized the change, warning that it would lead to a politicization of the judiciary and weaken its independence. The political majority behind the contentious reform justify it as the way to root out corruption by making judges accountable to the people. Here are some of the candidates: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...