This morning, Luis Rodríguez Bucio, Undersecretary of Public and Citizen Security, exposed judges Martha Magaña López and Felipe Consuelo Soto for issuing suspensions against the reform to 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.
This morning, employees of the Federal Judicial Branch blocked the entrances to the Chamber of Deputies in an attempt to prevent the discussion and voting on judicial reform from beginning.
The Morena legislators then moved to an alternate headquarters in the Iztacalco municipality.
