Morena and its allies, the Green and Labor Party, have taken advantage of this situation so that, in the first three months of the current legislature of the Congress of the Union have been endorsed and published 12 constitutional and secondary reforms, of which only four were unanimous. While another five are already in the Executive Branch awaiting publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).
Secondary laws to the Judiciary
Faced with this “steamroller” from Morena, the reforms of Andrés Manuel López Obrador or Claudia Sheinbuam have come out on “fast track.” For example, the first package of secondary laws to the Judicial Reform, that President Claudia Sheinbaum sent, It is the one that took the fewest days to be endorsed and published, with only seven days.
These proposals – which modify the Judicial Career Law, the Organic Law of the Judicial Branch of the Federation and the reform of the General Law of Administrative Responsibility – establish the hows and whens for the election of judges, magistrates and ministers in June 2025.
On October 8, they were endorsed by the Senate committees, which is the first step in the legislative process for their entry into force, and six days later they were published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF). Being a secondary reform, it did not require the approval of state congresses, which expedited its entry into force.
constitutional supremacy
Other reforms that have been resolved ‘expressly’ both in their approval and in their publication is that of “ constitutional supremacy “, which prevents the Judiciary from contesting any constitutional change. For this, the Morenoist federal and state legislators took nine days to approve it and for Claudia Sheinbaum’s government to publish it in the DOF.
On October 30 at 10:35 p.m. it was approved by the Chamber of Deputies; Immediately, that day it was sent to the state congresses, since being a constitutional reform, it must be endorsed by 17 entities. Three minutes later and without discussion, the Morena de Zacatecas legislators endorsed it with 18 votes in favor and 10 against.
Still Not even 24 hours had passed and the “constitutional supremacy” reform had already been approved by the 17 state congressesso on October 31, both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate – which met one in the morning and another in the afternoon – issued the declaration of constitutionality. On the night of that same day, the Ministry of the Interior published the decree in the Official Gazette for its entry into force.
This constitutional change was presented by Morena’s coordinators in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Adán Augusto López and Ricardo Monreal, respectively in order to stop District judges from granting protections to stop the reform of the Judiciary.
The rush and the mistakes
The rush to carry out the orders of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the current president Claudia Sheinbaum has also led to mistakes being made, since by endorsing the disappearance of autonomous bodies — among them the INAI, the Coneval, Mejoredu, among others — Morena and allies eliminated part of the “constitutional supremacy” reform without realizing it.
legislators of PAN and PRI were the ones who encouraged that Morenistas had eliminated three paragraphs related to “constitutional supremacy”, so the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, instructed to make a correction to add what was removed.
“They eliminated that. It’s crazy funny. In other words, what they had said they had put in, they eliminated it, and they eliminated another paragraph: ‘Constitutional controversies or actions of unconstitutionality that have the objective of contesting the additions or reforms to this Constitution are inadmissible,'” warned the PRI member, Rubén Moreira. .
Reform of the Judiciary
The reform of the Judiciary – one of the most far-reaching in recent years and which orders that judges, magistrates and ministers be elected by popular and direct vote – is another of the reforms that Morenoist deputies and senators quickly endorsed, in the early morning and outside the original headquarters of both chambers.
Although it took 20 days to issue this constitutional modification, it was due, in part, to judges demonstrating outside the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to prevent the endorsement of this proposal, which caused legislators to delay the debate.
However, once the reform was approved in the Congress of the Union and it passed to the states, the process was agile, since It only took two days for more than 17 local congresses to give their endorsement to this constitutional change. Without discussion, the first to approve this modification was the Congress of Oaxaca.
National guard
The approval of the reforms has been rushed; only the discussion and voting on some of them have taken place at night and early in the morning. In this case there is the initiative of then-president López Obrador that establishes that the National Guard will be under the command of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).
This modification began to be discussed at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 24 in the Senate; Meanwhile, the state congresses were already prepared to receive the reform at any time, so they began their sessions and went into recess waiting for it to arrive.
At 6:15 on September 25, the Upper House approved this constitutional change and sent it to the states.In less than an hour, the full Congress of Tabasco was already discussing this modificationand around 10:00 the legislators, mostly from Morena, approved it.
That On the same day, 16 entities joined this process, Therefore, on September 29, both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies issued the declaration of constitutionality and a few minutes before López Obrador left the presidency on September 30, he was able to publish it in the DOF.
This reform took 38 days to be discussed and published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), because most of the initiatives that López Obrador presented in February 2024—among them that of the National Guard—were endorsed by the past legislature of the Congress of the Union. However, the final steps of the legislative process were completed in six days.
