MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday selected Ernestina Godoy, a longtime legal adviser to President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the country’s next attorney general.

The appointment came after Alejandro Gertz Manero stepped down last week. Godoy had been filling in on an interim basis since then.

Prior to that, Godoy, 70, had served as Sheinbaum’s legal adviser since she took power in October 2024. She was also Mexico City prosecutor when Sheinbaum was mayor.

Sheinbaum said earlier on Wednesday that her short list of candidates was all women. “It's women's time,” she said during her daily news briefing.

Godoy told senators Wednesday that “we won't invent culprits and there won't be political prosecutions, but from now on, I tell you: there also won't be impunity.”

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