Mexico City.- The resolution was approved by 12 votes in favour and 6 against in the Constitutional Committee; in the Legislative Committee it was approved with 13 votes in favour and 6 against.
Now, the senators are discussing the reserved articles. In the session, led by Ernestina Godoy and Citlalli Hernández, two close associates of Claudia Sheinbaum, Opposition legislators raised their concerns about the ruling.
PAN senators Ricardo Anaya, Marko Cortés, Gustavo Sánchez Vázquez and Mayuli Latifa Martínez participated in the session “under caution,” as they recalled that there were court orders to halt the legislative process.
Alejandra Barrales, from Movimiento Ciudadano, accused that the ruling does not propose to democratize justice, but to control it from the Judicial Branch. “Today, with this ruling, two powers of the Union, the Executive and the Legislative, are called to unite to subject a third power, the Judicial Branch,” said Barrales. “When governments politicize justice in the name of the people, it is only to disguise a dictatorship, to keep absolute control in a country,” she said. The PRI member Carolina Viggiano said that the draft is deficient, not only because of its design, but also because of its distortion. “Morena has decided to turn Mexico into a guinea pig,” she said. Ricardo Anaya, from the PAN, agreed that a deep reform of the justice system in Mexico is needed, but said that in the ruling “three traps are obvious.” “First trap and first deception: they tell people that they will be able to vote freely, directly and secretly to choose judges, magistrates,” he said. The second, he mentioned, is the number of ballots that will make this exercise one of confusion, far from being democratic. “Where people end up simply choosing at random, those from the Executive’s little box,” he lamented. The third trap, which he described as the most serious, is the creation of a Disciplinary Court. “Five people who are going to have a power that no authority in Mexico has ever had, also preselected by Morena, with total control, and who will have three powers: the first, as a sole instance, there is no possibility of going to another instance, they can remove a judge from office, and there is no other instance. “Second power: they give notice to the Public Ministry and they can put him in jail; and the third faculty, via impeachment, disqualifies him for 20 years from being a public servant again,” he added. “Let it not be said that under our responsibility the balance of powers that has sustained our nation many times despite its bad rulers was destroyed,” said the senator from the MC Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas. Colosio Riojas also criticized the figure of the faceless judges as a “regression.” “Justice without transparency is a complete injustice,” he asserted. However, the Morena senator Oscar Cantón Zetina assured that the judicial reform is only a “first step to recover peace.” Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera, also from Morena, assured that the legislative majority seeks to “democratize” justice. “The rules of democracy are clear: Minorities count, but majorities rule (…) The people of Mexico have already decided, and are in favor of the reform of the Judicial Branch,” she affirmed.
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