Last Tuesday, the deputy Reyna Celeste Ascencio, from the Morena bench, presented an initiative to modify the Regulatory Law of Sections I and II of Article 105 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, to “restrict the possibility that the SCJN can declare the invalidity of laws based on the appreciation that some constitutional norm is invalid”.
The initiative of the federal deputy is presented days after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the proposal of Minister Luis María Aguilar to invalidate the informal preventive detention. The head of the federal Executive rejected the minister’s project, saying that, if it proceeded, it would be “a chicanery” and that the Executive Power would be invading a power that only corresponds to the Legislative: modifying the Constitution.
When asked if he supports this initiative or stands out, the president insisted that it is an initiative that arises from the legislature.
These are decisions made by legislators, nothing more to clarify that, but it is not an initiative proposed by the executive.”
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico.
The president argued that he agrees with a reform of the Judiciary, but not through a reform.
“I think we are not in a position to carry out any reform that has to do with the Judiciary, I mean a constitutional reform,” he said.
