Iván Evair Saldaña
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 8, 2024, p. 12
Yesterday posters appeared outside Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán’s office accusing him of traitor
for having given the decisive vote that on Tuesday prevented the approval of the project of Minister Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá, which proposed invalidating the toral articles of the judicial reform.
The signs were posted without names of the authors. Unofficially, it was said that those responsible were workers of the highest court, who freely walk through the corridors of that historic building, unlike visitors and even the press, who need authorization.
In other writings, they also occupied the portrait of former president Benito Juárez with the phrase attributed to him: Cursed are those who defend the people with their words and betray them with their actions.
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On Tuesday, the plenary session of the Supreme Court discussed for more than five hours, with an intermediate recess of 90 minutes, González Alcántara’s project that invalidated from the constitutional reform the massive dismissal of thousands of judges and magistrates so that their charges could be submitted by popular election. However, Pérez Dayán surprised by announcing that he would not support the proposal because he believed that the Court “does not have the power to say what the Constitution should or should not have included.
No matter how much I try to convince myself otherwise, to resolve in the sense proposed by the proposal would be, I say this with all due respect and exclusively in the jurisdiction of my own person, to respond to nonsense, irresponsibly brought to the supreme text, with another equivalent folly, by forcing the exercise of a power that was not conferred on me in the knowledge of an action of unconstitutionality. Thank you, Madam Minister President.
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