Students and academics from the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) marched against the judicial reform proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which proposes that judges, magistrates and ministers be elected by citizen vote.
The march “In defense of the law” left the Águila of the Faculty of Law towards the headquarters of the Federal Judicial Council. Students and academics shouted slogans such as “If the people are informed, the reform will not pass!”, “The Judicial Power is not for sale, it must be defended!” and “Mexico, hold on, UNAM is rising up.”
The president criticized that one of the academics who is against judicial reform is Diego Valadés.
“He was a prosecutor, well, before that he had been there at the Institute of Legal Research and he was the prosecutor for (Carlos) Salinas when the PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated, and he was one of the first to come out and say that it was a lone assassin, when the Prosecutor’s Office has the information, it is even requesting an arrest warrant that the Judiciary does not grant, that there is a second shooter,” he said.
