The overwhelming majority of Morena, Labor Party (PT) y Green Ecologist Party (PVEM) approved yesterday with 25 votes in favor and 12 against, in joint commissions of Constitutional Points and Legislative Studies of the Senatethe opinion of reform to the Judiciary, which, according to the ruling party, will allow the resolution of the problem of access to justicewhile the opposition considered it to be a fraudulent reform to gain control of the Court.
“See you in the plenary session,” warned the senator and leader of the National Action Party, Marko Cortés by voting against the reform. “We accept the challenge,” responded PT member Alejandro González.
The election of ministers, magistrates and judges by popular vote generated a debate that lasted more than seven hours in which the ruling party defended the president’s proposal Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador under the argument that it will strengthen democracy, while the opposition called the proposal “deceitful.”
The senator of the PAN, Ricardo Anaya, He considered that the reform intends, “with tricks and deceit, to take control to preselect the candidates for judges, magistrates and ministers who would be elected by the citizens,” since the one who will preselect the candidates will be Morena through the Executive and Legislative.
And he took the opportunity to demand that the government stop pressuring the opposition with “corrupting proposals” and even with harassment through state prosecutors to vote in favor of the reform.
Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojassenator of MC, considered that this reform was made to remove privileges and excesses, but also “to take control of the power that acts as the arbitrator of Mexico. For this reason, today, the vengeful purpose of this reform is more than clear.
Revenge is sought from the independence that the judiciary has maintained against the excesses of a power Executive which clearly wants an unprecedented concentration of power, more dangerous than what we have seen in the democratic history of this country.”
Meanwhile, PRI Senator Cynthia López Castro said that given the large number of candidates, citizens will end up choosing ministers with “Hail Mary, give me aim” because “it is impossible to know the 81 names that will appear on the ballot.”
The Morena supporter Oscar Canton Zentina He defended the reform and reiterated that “Morena will vote with absolute conviction for this presidential initiative, because the people of Mexico supported us with almost 36 million votes… that is why in Morena we are going to win by a landslide to give justice to Mexicans.”
The senator of the PRI, Claudia Anaya, He warned that if the reform to the Judicial Branch is approved, they will appeal to international bodies to challenge it.
Prepare opposition, strategy for avoid “traitors”
In it Senate of the Republic, The opposition alliance made up of the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Citizen Movement (MC) has its plan ready to prevent the existence of “traitors” among them who vote in favor of the reform to the Judiciarywhich will be discussed and voted on next Wednesday in plenary session.
To this end, from this Sunday the 43 senators who claimed to vote against, began to concentrate on the Ciudad from Mexicoto be present at the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions.
The senators of the PAN, The incumbents and alternates will meet in the so-called Torre Azul, in front of the Senate; the incumbents and alternates of the PRI will gather at their headquarters Buenavista National Park; while those from Movimiento Ciudadano are already in the vicinity of the Senate.
For their part, the senators of Morena They have also been summoned to remain concentrated in a hotel on Avenida Revolución, where they usually hold their meetings with the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Yesterday, law students denounced that the PAN senator for Veracruz, Miguel Angel Yunez Marquezdid not sign the commitment letter that was requested of him to guarantee his vote against; in this regard, the senator and national leader of the PAN, Marko Cortés, recalled that last Tuesday, September 3, Senator Yunes Márquez said “out loud he already said that he will be present and will vote against.” /Karina Aguilar
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