Hundreds of judicial workers demonstrated this Tuesday at the headquarters of the Supreme Court of National Justice (SCJN) in support of the ministers who have met there to deliberate a potential declaration of unconstitutionality of the judicial reform approved by the Government.
The meeting of ministers, led by the president of the SCJN, Norma Piña, to which its protagonists arrived amid cheers from the judicial workers stationed near the building, studies a project of unconstitutionality regarding the Reform of the Judicial Branch presented by Minister Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá.
“Today, the SCJN will study a matter of extremely high complexity and extraordinary importance for our nation. It is not an exaggeration to say that whatever decision we arrive at will be taken up in the history books of our country,” said Piña in his inaugural speech.
Judicial workers from all over the country and political figures such as the former president of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, traveled to the vicinity of the judicial headquarters to support the amendment to the reform.
“We come here to support the Court so that they take the step to recover constitutionality if the Court ends up ruling that (the reform) is declared unconstitutional, what corresponds to the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch is to comply, there is no power above the Supreme Court of Justice to interpret legality in Mexico,” Acosta Naranjo told EFE.
For the former president of the Lower House, if the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum did not abide by the resolution that the Court deliberates this Tuesday, it would lead to a “serious constitutional crisis” in Mexico.
“We urge the head of the Executive Branch to abide by the Court’s resolution, that would free our constitutional conflict and give us stability, which is so important to us,” Acosta Naranjo insisted.
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Protect the Constitution
Before the beginning of the SCJN session, speeches were made by some judges and magistrates such as Martha Magaña, judge of Morelos, who issued an order against the judicial reform and who at the time reported having received threats and intimidating messages for this.
“Today in this constitutional headquarters, eight women and men will protect the Constitution as a crucial test to defend the democracy of our country,” Magaña proclaimed to the crowd.
According to Judge Morelos, the country today faces “the most serious blow, the attempt to destroy independent justice,” in reference to a reform that seeks the popular election of judges and magistrates at the polls, something that those who today They expressed their categorical rejection.
The judicial reform, approved in September by both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, in a vote where senators from the opposition to the Government voted favorably in controversial circumstances, foresees the first popular election of judges and magistrates for June 2025.
This constitutional reform was promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and was supported by Claudia Sheinbaum, who had greater legislative support for its approval.
With information from EFE
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