translated from Spanish: Accept resignation to magistrate in Nayarit

Nayarit.-the Congress of the State of Nayarit authorized the resignation of Pedro Antonio Enríquez Soto as justice of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) in the middle of investigations involving him in the alleged fraud against nearly 60 thousand holders of the “Infonavit.Durante this session, Plenary approved the opinion of the Committee on governance and constitutional issues which declared from the voluntary, free and irrevocable resignation presented on Tuesday passed by the judge.” “The thirty second legislature of the State of Nayarit in the terms of the article 88 of the political Constitution of the State declares from the resignation presented by the magistrate”, says the opinion. The disclaimer was adopted with 23 votes in favor, two abstentions and one against. The Decree shall enter into force one day after its publication in the official newspaper of the Deputy Estado.El of the PRD, Ismael Duñalds Ventura, the only one who rejected the opinion, criticized the judge’s resignation.
Doctor in law Enriquez Soto is a professional fool or do we want to see the face of fools to the members of this Congress”, he said in Tribune.

“Certainly that is their right of voluntary surrender, that is not in question, if the circumstances were ordinary, but it turns out that we are not in ordinary circumstances, but in a legal situation is extraordinary, because we all know that the judge is a” subject of criminal investigation and that breaks the rule of the ordinary situation”. In that sense, he rebuked that once justice federal refused the protections before the process of impeachment facing at this Congress, he chose to resign.

He considered that his resignation is a strategy to change its legal status of public servant to particular and have right to a credit of the retreat consisting of 100 thousand pesos a month for a year. Last December, the Prosecutor Petronilo Díaz Ponce revealed a fraud occurred between 2013 and 2018 against around 60 thousand holders of Infonavit allegedly involving Enriquez, another magistrate and four State judges. The official explained that in a particular office were processed judgements against thousands of defendants with false evidence and without notification or sites, which concluded in rulings that Infonavit regained these thousands of homes in the States of Chihuahua, Nayarit, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Sonora, Sinaloa and Jalisco.

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