On Wednesday night, during the ruling of the reforms to the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (Legipe), senators from Morena and their allies approved changing the original initiative to introduce an additional filter for candidates participating in the election of members of the Judiciary.
The modification to article 500 section eight of the Legipe altered, via secondary law, the mechanism recently established in the Constitution so that the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, the Executive and the Judiciary could veto or not the semi-finalists who will go to insaculation public, final stage to define the candidates who will compete for judicial positions.
López Hernández initially admitted, in an interview in the Senate, that he was of the idea of leaving this additional filter, which according to the opposition exceeded what was established in the constitutional reform in judicial matters.
“There were colleagues who maintained that it was best to keep it. The argument now, to withdraw it, simply and simply is that we do not want it to be taken as if one wants to limit the work of the selection committees,” he admitted.
However, later he said that he did not agree with this modification, which in fact consisted of a right of veto, and he did not want to hold anyone from Morena responsible for its authorship, “out of solidarity,” although the proponent was the senator from Morena. his party, Manuel Ladrón de Guevara.
The leader of the Morena legislators was approached before the vote on the reform of the Legipe, and announced that another of the reservations approved during the ruling will also be eliminated, in which it was established that the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate could present a single list of candidates for positions subject to election.
With the correction, each chamber will present its own candidates, as marked by judicial reform.
Morena’s deputy coordinator in the Senate, Ignacio Mier Velazco, assured that there will be no veto right for anyone: “we are in favor of there being a democratic, effective process of judges, magistrates and ministers,” he said.
