Fernando Camacho Servin
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 31, 2024, p. 4
Deputies from the Morena parliamentary group met yesterday to analyze probable modifications to the ruling of the reform to the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF), which will be taken to the full House from this Monday, but without touching the election of judges by popular vote or the disappearance of the Federal Judicial Council, since both are issues irreducible
for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Interviewed at the end of the meeting held yesterday in San Lázaro, Olga Sánchez Cordero and Leonel Godoy, members of the so-called working group
Regarding the aforementioned reform, they pointed out that in said space, the interested legislators have expressed their points of view to see if they are included in the opinion approved last week in the Constitutional Affairs Committee.
–Do you mean that there will be changes to the opinion?
–We are looking into it. First we are going to sort out the proposals of the new deputies, see what they are about, which are procedural and which are substantive. That is why it is called a working group, because we are just working – Godoy said.
One of the observations expressed by the group – which has met twice and is made up of a dozen legislators – is that of retired minister Olga Sánchez Cordero, who has repeatedly expressed her disagreement with including several provisions in the Magna Carta that should be in secondary laws.
For a long time now, the Constitution has become practically the regulatory law for everything. Constitutions around the world contain only the fundamental regulations, but the Mexican custom has been to include everything in the Constitution, even the details that can be included in secondary laws.
Another issue that worries the Morena member is verifying the eligibility requirements, the profile of those who will go to the polls
as candidates for a position in the PJF.
Representative Irma Juan Carlos, also a member of the working group, said that her proposals to enrich the ruling include incorporating the principles of pluriculturalism and interculturalism, so that the justice systems specific to indigenous peoples are taken into account.
In Morena they know that there are aspects that will not be modified, because they are of primary interest to López Obrador. For the president and the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, Two issues are irreconcilable: the disappearance of the Federal Judiciary and its replacement by a disciplinary body, as well as the election of judges.
said Sánchez Cordero.
