Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán advanced his position against the invalidity project of the judicial reform, which implies his separation from the block of eight ministers of the Court that would give the qualified majority in the vote, according to a report from the Quadratín agency. .
Minister Pérez Dayán argued that the unconstitutionality action is inadmissible.
“It is totally and absolutely inadmissible and this leads to dismissing it in accordance with the precedents to which I have referred, no matter how much I try to convince myself otherwise, resolving in the sense that the proposal proposes would be – I say it with all due respect and exclusively in the jurisdiction of my own person—respond to a folly irresponsibly brought to the Supreme Text with another folly equivalent to forcing the exercise of a power that was not conferred on me in the knowledge of an action of unconstitutionality,” he stated in his intervention in the plenary session of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court began a discussion this Tuesday to determine whether to invalidate part of a controversial judicial reform approved in September by the ruling party on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.
The plenary session of the highest jurisdictional authority, made up of 11 ministers – including its president – debates a draft sentence to suppress, among other things, the election of judges and magistrates by popular vote, one of the core points of the constitutional reform promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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The Court’s ruling threatens to unleash a clash of powers, after Congress, dominated by the ruling party, approved a constitutional reform at the end of October to ensure that amendments to the Magna Carta are immune to challenges such as unconstitutionality actions, constitutional controversies or amparo trials.
The rule also provided for its retroactive application, which would prevent the Court from reviewing the judicial reform.
Three of the 11 ministers of the Court have publicly expressed themselves in favor of judicial reform.
With information from Reuters
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