Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, p. 5
On the eve of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) ruling on judicial reform, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo affirmed that the ministers are going overboard and intend to legislate on changes that are already part of the Constitution. Eight ministers seek to decide on something that the people have already decided, because they want to change what the constituent has already resolved.
Who is causing a constitutional problem? Because I don’t even want to call it a crisis, that’s what our adversaries call it. Who is causing it? The Court
. Since the new conformation of Congress was determined, the entire legislative process that the Constitution itself establishes for its modification has been developed, so now it is not feasible to try to reverse something that is already part of the Magna Carta, therefore, he assured the president, the people of Mexico are going to elect judges, magistrates and ministers.
–Is it a fact that this election will be held on June 1, 2025?
–We are going to wait for the Court’s decision. Why don’t we talk about this on Wednesday?
Sheinbaum canceled any possibility of opening a negotiation as proposed by Minister Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá because you cannot negotiate what the people have decided and what is already the Constitution. The reform of the Judiciary is already part of the Constitution
. He stressed that in any Court scenario, his government has a plan that doesn’t put anything at risk
whether they vote for or against.
He even asked to reverse the scenario: “Look at it the other way around, what would happen if you are against the constituent’s decision? In other words, these characters criticize the one-person power, they say ‘against the one-person power that President López Obrador exercised and that the President now wants to exercise’, but they ask that the President negotiate something that the constituent has already decided. How? Because it is not understood. “The people of Mexico made a decision.”
He added that there are interests of a group that considers a presidential move more democratic than the election of judges, magistrates and ministers by the people. In other words, the finger guarantees the autonomy of the Judicial Branch, but the election of the people to the Judicial Branch does not guarantee independence?
–If they partially invalidate the reform of the Judiciary, are you going to abide by this resolution?
–Let’s wait, let’s not get anxious. We see what the Court decides and from there we will give our position.
In his conference, he alluded to former President Ernesto Zedillo’s criticism against the reforms by questioning the recipient, since he did not spread his position in a national media outlet or on his social networks. So, the message was not for the people of Mexico, because when publishing it in a United States media, the recipients are Americans, the United States government or the politics of that country.
He recalled that it was Zedillo who promoted Fobaproa, the biggest scam in history, privatized the railways before going to work for one of the benefited companies and promoted a constitutional reform to renew the SCJN. He removed all the ministers to replace them through a PRI-PAN agreement and now he tells us that they were independent, super independent, when they did not even dare to say anything about Fobaproa
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Sheinbaum spoke about what is expected in the Court, which linked to the US presidential election makes it a Tuesday of great expectations. The judicial reform is already part of the Constitution, so it cannot be modified by a resolution, beyond the fact that this will occur from an improper admission of partisan resources, which do not have legal personality to go to that instance.
The President defended the members of the Evaluation Committee of the Executive Branch because they have participated in the Judicial Branch: a president of the Court and two presidents of state Judicial Branches, among them. They have various formations.
