Prior to the approval of the reform to the Judiciary, Juan Antonio Garcia Amado, Professor at the University of León, in Spainwarned that the election of judges, magistrates and ministers by popular vote contained in said modification, will serve to keep them controlled and make them subservient to power.
The researcher was invited last August by the minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to give the keynote lecture entitled “Do constitutional interpreters have limits?”
However, the content of this conference was widespread Just a few days ago, in front of Minister Lenia Batres, who is in favor of judicial reform and the election of judges through the popular vote, causing controversy, since the Spanish expert indicated that the elected judges will work based on “what my party needs, that the judges use that power, but in my favor, then, that is the perfect combination judges with a lot of power, but politically managed”.
Los judges If they win the election, he said, they would become “a delegation of the sovereign, as a concession of the party and that they be servile, that they respect the letter when the power is It is convenient and that they transcend it”.
He also exemplified that if the Government from Mexico He points out to the ministers at his convenience: “if the seven are ours, long live the Judiciary, and if they are from the others, down with the Judiciary, if that is what matters to us, we do not believe in the Rule of Law and the Constitution”.
He stated that “when we limit the interpretation of the Constitution, It is not to defend her, it is to benefit ourselves, that is why we cannot make just anyone a judge. If we think that the separation of judges, the inamovibility and the technical criteria is an inconvenience, Let’s talk about it.”
In addition to this, García Amado indicated that the Supreme Court must have the final say in the interpretation of the Constitution, because if the Legislature had it, it would mean a regression to the 19th century.
At the end of the conference, the minister Lenia Batres He thanked the expert for his frankness and said that in Mexico That discussion was already brewing, and its reflections “would contribute to the debate.”
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2024-09-25 21:18:40