It would be illegal for the Court to overturn judicial reform, warns Sheinbaum

Alma E. Muñoz

The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, September 13, 2024, p. 5

The reform of the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF) is a fact and the Court cannot overturn it because It would be illegaland there is economic stability in the country, assured the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum. Investors have nothing to worry about, she stressed.

In response to what was said by the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, that democracy trembles In various places around the world, including Latin America, he said: “What more democracy than judges being elected by the people!

Investors have nothing to worry about, not even the trade agreement with the United States and Canada; there are things that are up to the Mexicans, and that is what is being defined.

Interviewed outside the transition house, she reiterated that the labor rights and benefits of the workers of the Judiciary will be respected, “everything they have achieved, but yes, nepotism and corruption will end.”

He said that as part of the budget for the following year, they are analyzing the resources of the PJF trusts, which will disappear with the amendment, to allocate them to the election of judges, ministers and magistrates.

According to a note in this newspaper, six Court trusts that will be eliminated totaled more than 6,985 million pesos until June 30.

Sheinbaum assured that just as this reform was approved, the rest of the package of modifications proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will pass.

–After the reform was approved, is there economic stability? – he was asked.

–They said the dollar was going to go to who knows how much, and nothing. In reality, a large part of the dollar-peso changes have to do with international affairs.

The president-elect mentioned that secondary laws are still missing, but the judicial reform is already a fact, after being endorsed by the majority of local congresses.

It is a good time, given that we are about to celebrate Mexico’s Independence and it is very good for the country that the Judiciary is renewed, democratized, and at the service of the people and the nation.

–Do you foresee that the Court itself could reject the reform?

–No, that is illegal, it has already been approved. That is what the Constitution says.

When asked that the workers of the Judiciary warned that they will continue to fight, and will even resort to international bodies, he responded that They have their right, but the Constitution is the Constitution and the sovereignty of the people is national..

Once again, he said that everything will go well for his inauguration on October 1st in San Lázaro. If there is any protest, it is part of democracy.

She expressed confidence that the rest of the amendments proposed by the President will be approved. They have to… We had suggested that indigenous peoples and the National Guard be next; I don’t know what the deputies have decided, but that is what we had discussed. The next ones are coming, we would have to carefully review how the committees’ decision was made..

–Would Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez continue to vote in favor of these reforms?

–That is a matter for the senators.

With information from Alexia Villaseñor