Another group placed a banner with the legend “We young people do want reform” on the fences surrounding the Glorieta del Ahuehuete, named by contingents of families as the “Glorieta of the disappeared.” The banner was torn down by other protesters against the reform.
However, it was agreed between protesters and legislators to allow access to the Senate to begin the discussion in the Constitutional Points and Legislative Studies committees, which began after 1:00 p.m.
On foot or in their vans, the legislators entered the Senate, where they will discuss this afternoon the reform that establishes that judges, ministers and magistrates be elected by direct vote.
Meanwhile, on Paseo de la Reforma, law students and professors, as well as employees of the Judiciary, are demonstrating against this constitutional change, as they believe that it will eliminate the judicial career. However, they indicated that they will not block access to the Upper House to allow the senators to discuss and vote on the bill on judicial matters.
“We will leave the doors of the Senate free so that the sensors can enter to do their work,” said protesters, adding that they will remain outside the Senate until the constitutional amendment is voted on.
They mobilize in the states against the reform of the Judicial Branch
In Durango, workers from the Federal Judicial Branch mobilized in the capital against the reform, marching along 20 de Noviembre Avenue to the State Congress, with slogans such as “Mr. Senator, stop the dictator” and “Durango students defend justice.”
