The Senate in Mexico elected Ernestina Godoy as head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), with 97 votes in favor and 19 against, after the three final candidates, included in a shortlist submitted by President Claudia Sheinbaum, appeared before Congress today.

Godoy is a lawyer and a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with extensive experience in the legal and political fields, served as head of the Mexico City Attorney General's Office in the previous administration, where she spearheaded important investigations into femicides, high-impact crimes, and corruption. The new head of the FGR will hold this position until December 2034, after Alejandro Gertz left his post two years before the end of his term. After taking the oath of office, Godoy Ramos went to the podium to receive her appointment certificate from the President of the Senate, Laura Itzel Castillo. In his presentation of his work plan to the Senate, Godoy Ramos asserted that autonomy is strengthened through coordination. She promised that there would be no fabricated guilt, no political persecution, but also no impunity, as the Attorney General's Office (FGR) would not be a source of illegality. Prior to the vote, Godoy, former legal advisor to the Presidency, promised to serve the country with ethics, firmness, and a "deep sense of justice" following the resignation on Thursday of his predecessor, Alejandro Gertz Manero. "I assume this new position with the same conviction that has guided my entire professional life: to serve the people of Mexico with ethics, firmness, and a deep sense of justice," Godoy stated. "Today I close this chapter grateful and proud of the team I worked with and the progress we achieved together. I leave with the certainty that Mexico continues to move forward with a firm course toward a more just, more humane future with more rights for everyone," she indicated days earlier in her interim capacity.