This is the path to judicial reform
The expectation is that this constitutional reform will conclude its legislative cycle during September, that is, after being voted on by the Chamber of Deputies, it will go to the Senate for a vote and from there to the state congresses, to have the approval of at least 17 of them so that the Constitution can be declared reformed.
Monreal attended this Saturday to be credentialed as an elected deputy for the 66th Legislature and in an interview he reported that on Tuesday the 27th in the plenary session of the next Morena bench they will meet with the president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum to address the upcoming legislative agenda.
But he first outlined the three priorities for the first weeks of the Legislature: judicial reform, reform of the National Guard and amendments on indigenous matters.
Asked specifically whether the judicial reform could be ready to be enacted on September 16, and boasted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his latest “cry for independence,” Monreal said: “We recognize that he is the author who has insisted on this for years and that he presented the initiative on February 5.”
Of the three priorities, only judicial reform is pending a ruling by the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, and the analysis will begin on Monday, the 16th; according to Morena, the ruling process could even take until part of Tuesday.
As will happen with the 15 opinions approved by the Commission, it will be forwarded to the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies, so that at the beginning of the Legislature no other procedure will be necessary and the Board will schedule the session in which they will be discussed and put to a vote.
That vote will be with the new majority of Morena and its allies from the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party (PVEM), of 364 deputies, representing 72.8% of the Chamber, a qualified majority that will allow its approval alone, without needing opposition votes.
In the Senate, Morena, with 83 senators, will be two short of a qualified majority, but, Moneal indicated, “I have a lot of confidence in Adán (Augusto López Hernández, virtual senator) who will surely be the coordinator of the bench, a qualified majority is always built with a lot of patience.”
