Deputies and senators declare validity of constitutional supremacy reform

“No judge, no minister, no magistrate can annul a legal norm of the body reforming the Constitution, it is not valid, they have no jurisdiction, they have no powers or functions to do so,” reiterated Ricardo Monreal, leader of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies.

The declaration was made after the reform was approved by 23 local congresses.

The state Legislatures that endorsed the changes were the State of Mexico, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Yucatán, Zacatecas, Mexico City, Baja California, Baja California South, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guerrero and Hidalgo.

In the Senate, the president of the Board of Directors, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, declared the constitutionality of the reform.

A little more than 24 hours ago, with a qualified majority of 340 votes in favor, 133 against and one abstention, the Chamber of Deputies generally approved the opinion that reforms article 107 and adds a fifth paragraph to article 105 of the Magna Carta, regarding the unchallengeability of additions or reforms to the Political Constitution.

Morenistas have indicated that with this reform the constitutional processes will be perfected and they claim the rules of constitutionality control that have been surpassed.

Furthermore, the legal reasoning of unimpeachability is reinforced “as a rule and constitutional principle, establishing to leave no room for doubt the criterion that has prevailed in an inveterate manner, avoiding overinterpretations that are completely unrelated and outside the margins of the Constitution.” .