In response, the president was met with shouts of “the people! the people!” When the question of raising hands was raised, the option of having citizens elect the members of the judiciary through elections won.
López Obrador assured that the vote for judges, magistrates and ministers is a feeling of the people, which must be respected; even by the “neighbors” of the United States, a country with which there have been differences after the Ambassador Ken Salazar warn that it represents a risk to the business relationship.
“This helps us to understand the feelings of the people and also to internalize them with our neighbors, friends, neighbors in the United States. I say this with all due respect. They should not forget that democracy in America, in the United States, began like this, with the people electing judges,” he commented.
The president said that the package of reform initiatives he sent on February 5 is very different from what governments used to send during the neoliberal period, where the interest was not general but rather that of a few.
“We presented 20 constitutional reforms to Congress to restore the revolutionary and popular meaning that the Magna Carta had since its original drafting in 1917. These initiatives are clearly different and contrary to the reforms that were approved during the 36 years of the disastrous neoliberal period, when the goal was not to benefit the people, but rather to adjust the legal framework to facilitate the dispossession and delivery of the people’s and the nation’s assets to a rapacious minority,” he stressed.
Starting on September 1, 18 of the initiatives in the reform package, the latest of the López Obrador government, will be discussed by the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies of the 66th legislature.
