The above, said Fernández Noroña, in order to safeguard the supremacy and inviolability of the Magna Carta and “so that no one dares to be above the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States.”
The reform, criticized by opposition parties, had the approval votes of 23 state congresses, including Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, State of Mexico, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca , Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Yucatán, Zacatecas and Mexico City.