If you think citizens would pick who the judges could be, then you are poorly informed.
They would be picked by the state (fully controlled right now by the president and his party) and the citizens would just vote who of those they would like, but at the end of the day all of them would be aligned with the presiden’s cult. Then in comes the corruption, because they’d need money for the election and boy let me tell you… The narcos are just salivating the idea.