In Cuautepec, Iztapalapa, and Álvaro Obregón, telecom judges will be elected for all of Mexico.

Judges and magistrates specializing in telecommunications, broadcasting, and economic competition , whose decisions are national in scope and have long-term repercussions, will be elected this Sunday, June 1, by Mexican voters in eight municipalities in Mexico City.

It was the design of the Judicial election that determined that seven new justice administrators will be voted in on June 1st in only seven electoral districts of those municipalities. They will resolve disputes arising in those productive sectors, but whose effects are felt daily in the communications of 35 million Mexican homes.

Telecommunications and broadcasting are two productive sectors that annually account for more than 3% of Mexico's GDP, some $32.6 billion, and directly employ 301,806 people. Above all, they make communications possible and guarantee the right to information for 101 million Mexicans over the age of six who also use the Internet here today.

That is why it is debatable that only the municipalities of Gustavo A. Madero, Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza, Iztacalco, Coyoacán, Iztapalapa, Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón will provide the votes to elect seven new telecom judges and magistrates, but not the municipalities of Zapopan, Tijuana, Pesquería, Mérida or Colón, where there are already important technological hubs or recent investments to develop, for example, semiconductors there.

Legal experts doubt that the designation of these capital city mayoralties as vote-granting centers for the election of telecom judges is due to a political strategy by the promoters of the judicial reform, but rather due to an "oversight" and the lack of time available to design a better-planned election, although too many of these voters are in the electoral belt with preferences for the National Regeneration Movement.

"They didn't stop to analyze that these judges, in particular, would be handling matters for the entire Republic (...) Here, I don't think it's just the responsibility of whoever is going to vote; it's a shared responsibility of both the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch (...) We can only wait and see who is elected to these positions and also eventually exercise our rights as Mexicans, and whether we are satisfied with their performance or not, a commission will have to be created specifically to decide on their capacity or incapacity as judges," said Edgar Grajeda, a partner at the Pérez-Llorca law firm, specializing in litigation, mediation, and arbitration.

Mexico City has a registered voter registry of 7.9 million voters, but only 61.38% of those voters are legally eligible to elect the seven telecom judges on Sunday; and only three of the eight municipalities that will vote for these justice administrators have a combined total of 3 million votes.

These are Iztapalapa, Álvaro Obregón, and Gustavo A. Madero, whose territory of Cuautepec alone contributes half a million votes to the political force that wins its heart.

“The promoters would seek to ensure that all citizens can elect at least one specialized judge, but they focus on criminal matters and then very superficially mention other specialties (…) We know in which judicial electoral districts the judges specialized in telecommunications, economic competition, and broadcasting will be elected, but we do not know and have no idea today how the judges specialized in commercial bankruptcy and asset forfeiture will be elected, which are just as important as the others,” said Rafael Castellanos, legal analyst for Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI).

"They bundled all of Mexico City's courts into the federal, commercial, criminal, administrative, and specialized courts. We want to believe it was an oversight, and now a few Mexicans are burdened with the responsibility of electing these judges, who will resolve extremely important issues of national importance," Castellanos added.

On Sunday, some residents of the capital will vote for three judges for the Specialized Administrative Courts for Economic Competition, Broadcasting, and Telecommunications.

They will also vote for a judge for the Specialized Administrative Court for Economic Competition, Broadcasting, and Telecommunications.

And then they will vote for three judges in the Civil and Administrative Appeals Court specializing in Economic Competition, Broadcasting, and Telecommunications.

That is, the residents of those eight municipalities will vote for three judges and four magistrates on Sunday.

Voting for the four specialized magistrates will take place in the municipalities of Gustavo A. Madero, Cuauhtémoc, Coyoacán, and part of Iztapalapa. Voting for the three judges will also take place in Venustiano Carranza, Iztacalco, Álvaro Obregón, Cuajimalpa, and part of Iztapalapa.

The selection of these justice administrators is of paramount importance to Mexican telecommunications, following the uncertainty unleashed by the constitutional reform that created a new legal framework that gave rise to the new regulator, the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT), and simultaneously dissolved the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT).

The credit rating agency Fitch warns of a decline in investment in the telecommunications sector due to the rulings that the ATDT may issue if this new authority does not have a collegiate technical body to back its decisions.

And this, in light of the industry's warning that there will be challenges to the new Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law if its content gives priority to government plans over private investment, as the bill is currently drafted.

This is the context that awaits the new judges specializing in telecommunications, broadcasting, and antitrust, as well as other matters related to asymmetric regulation and the substantial power of certain operators, as well as issues regarding the use of spectrum frequencies and connectivity policies.