“The decree amending, adding to and repealing various provisions of the Mexican Constitution regarding the reform of the Judiciary is hereby declared approved,” Noroña said.
The Morena, Labor Party and Green Party benches made statements, in the absence of National Action (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Citizen Movement (MC).
And in the House of Representatives
The Chamber of Deputies also declared the constitutionality of the reforms to the Constitution on Judicial Reform, and it was sent to the Executive for publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).
Unlike the Senate, which issued the respective declaration in the afternoon with the votes of 23 legislatures, in the Chamber of Deputies 23 were counted, but only 22 were recorded.
“The Secretariat informs the Assembly that the approving votes of 23 local congresses corresponding to Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Mexico City, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán, Zacatecas and Mexico City were received. Therefore, the majority of the approving votes of the local congresses required by Article 135 of the Constitution have been met,” read Secretary Pedro Vázquez, of the PT.
However, the president of the Board of Directors of the Chamber, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, only “announced” the existence of 22 approving votes.
📌 The Board of Directors makes the constitutional declaration of the reform in the matter of #JudicialPower.
— H. Chamber of Deputies (@Mx_Diputados)
September 14, 2024
The specially called session in the Chamber of Deputies lasted only eight minutes, began with 263 deputies – that is, more than 40% were absent – and was immediately adjourned after the declaration.
The Judicial Reform was submitted to the federal Executive for publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).
The coordinator of Morena deputies, Ricardo Monreal, insisted that there is absolutely no legal recourse that can reform the Constitution and assured that there is no precedent in that regard.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), arguing that it is analyzing irregularities in the legislative process, has analyzed secondary laws, but never a constitutional reform, it cannot do so, he insisted.
Judge does not stop publication
Following the decision of a district judge in the state of Colima, who granted a provisional suspension so that the Judicial Reform is not published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the president of the Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, Ernestina Godoy Ramos, described this appeal as “clearly inadmissible.”
In an interview, the senator estimated that the Federal Executive will publish the decree in the Official Gazette of the Federation on Sunday, September 15.
Senator Godoy stressed that the injunctions to stop the reform of the Judicial Branch are “clearly inappropriate, since they are not provided for in the legislation and do not apply to constitutional reforms.”
Those who promote this type of challenge, he said, do so because they are not willing to give up their privileges and intend to maintain opacity in the Judiciary.
