Last night, while deputies were debating judicial reform in an alternate venue in Mexico City, the same federal judge issued the third provisional suspension against continuing with the discussion and subsequent approval of the initiative proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“The effects of the ex officio suspension granted are, so that: – The draft opinion regarding the initiative that reforms, adds to and repeals various provisions of the Federal Constitution…, discussed and approved on August 26, 2024, by the Constitutional Affairs Committee, has no effect for the complainants,” says the resolution of the Fifth District Judge based in Morelos, Martha Magaña López, who had already issued another suspension against the legislative process.
“This means that this particular project cannot be provisionally discussed and voted on by the Chamber of Deputies in the new legislature,” he added.
The first provisional suspensions were granted over the weekend to halt the discussion of the reform of the Judicial Branch. Ricardo Monreal, leader of Morena in the House of Representatives, immediately responded that they would not submit to the judge’s decision.
The complainant filed an amparo suit against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Legislative Branch for the proposed constitutional reform under which magistrates, judges of the Federal Judiciary and ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation will be defined by popular vote starting in 2025.
On Tuesday, Luis Rodríguez Bucio, Undersecretary of Public and Citizen Security, exposed judges Martha Magaña López and Felipe Consuelo Soto for issuing suspensions against the reform of the Judicial Branch, just hours before the discussion began in Congress.
During President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning press conference, cases of alleged irregularities by judges and magistrates to favor criminal groups were also reported.
“We must continue to clean up corruption in the government and not just in the executive branch, that is why the debate is now on the reform of the judiciary, because there was no progress in that, it continued,” said the president in response to questions regarding corruption in the government.
He warned the protesters that “they have to keep cleaning up even if they get angry and upset.”
Regarding the mobilization that the Judicial Branch workers started today to try to prevent the legislators from entering to discuss the ruling, he commented that “the people want to elect their judges and magistrates. Only the elites don’t want to”: “They are within their rights. Imagine, they have to defend their privileges.”
The president added that corruption continued to prevail in the judiciary, and now there are rulings in which corruption is present, and that is why the judges are on strike.
