Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has defended a judicial election meant to transform the country’s court system.

Mexicans will vote in the country’s first judicial elections Sunday. The fiercely debated question is whether electing judges will deepen democratic decay or purge courts of rampant corruption and ...

In a report, the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) offered a critical review of ...

The elections are the brainchild of ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — who, like Trump, often clashed with the ...

The future of Mexico’s judiciary was decided by a small minority of voters after an unprecedented election of federal judges, ...

Judicial elections this month attracted little attention, with just 13% of voters turning out. Yet the implications could be ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called her country's judicial election 'extraordinary,' despite turnout of less than 13%.

Mexico held its first-ever judicial elections on Sunday, stirring controversy and sowing confusion among voters still struggling to understand a process set to transform the country's court system.

In a recent poll that Ms. Sheinbaum mentioned in a news conference to try to show support for Mexico’s experiment, 72 percent of about 1,000 voters surveyed said the judicial election was needed.

The average voter in the capital was asked to choose 51 judges out of 293 candidates.

Mexico is scheduled to hold its first-ever judicial elections on Sunday, with hundreds of judges, magistrates and justices on the ballot across the country. It’s an unprecedented contest that ...