The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced this Tuesday that he will send an initiative of Constitutional reform for citizens to directly elect the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).
So that the people elect the ministers, as established by the liberal Constitution of 1857, at the time of President (Benito) Juárez, that the ministers were elected by the people”,
exposed the president in his morning press conference.
His statements come after the SCJN invalidated on Monday the first part of López Obrador’s controversial electoral reform, known as “Plan B”, because the majority in Congress violated the legislative process during its approval last February.
The president explained that he will send the proposal in September 2024, before leaving the government, but after next year’s elections in which Congress will be renewed and he hopes that his alliance of parties will recover the necessary two-thirds of the Legislative to reform the Constitution.
That mafia only the people (can face it), only with the decision of the people can a reform be carried out ”,
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The Mexican ruler denounced that the Judiciary is in crisis because the former governments of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Action Party (PAN) divided up the spaces in the Court.
Let the people choose them. Why this crisis in the Judiciary? Why did that power completely atrophy? Because they used it as a bargaining chip when they made the agreements between the PRI and the PAN”,
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The president affirmed that the Judiciary “is rotten” for invalidating his electoral reform, accused of generating uncertainty before the 2024 presidential elections.
With nine votes in favor and two against, the plenary session of the SCJN it blocked the reforms of the General Law of Social Communication and the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities.
The contested part of the electoral reform redefined the concept of propaganda so that officials could pronounce themselves during campaigns and elections, something previously prohibited by the electoral ban.
While the National Electoral Institute (INE) denounced that the reforms “reduce the autonomy” of the organization and “harm equity in the contest.”
“There is no remedy for the Judiciary, it is rotten, they are acting in a partisan manner,” said the president.
The president accused the ministers of the Court of being on the lookout for “service of the conservative block, which is synonymous with a gang of ruffians, very corrupt.”
In an act of arrogance and authoritarianism, the ministers of the Court dare to cancel the law, who are at the service of a rapacious minority, who dedicated themselves to plundering the country and who wants to return to their own jurisdiction ”,
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