The reform of the Judiciary must be done in stages, the president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has said. He believes the first step is to elect judges and magistrates.
“That is the first step, that is why there is so much resistance because it is a power that has been co-opted, hijacked, taken over by a minority and that is not justice,” the president said at his press conference on Friday.
López Obrador argued that the judiciary has become a factional power, defending a group and its interests with judges who sell themselves to the highest bidder. He accused the “potentates” of doing everything they can to prevent the implementation of the judicial reform.
“They are putting a lot of pressure on us, saying that there will be economic and political instability. That what we want is to have control of the three powers, to establish a dictatorship. No! What we want is to establish a genuine rule of law, because what we have is a crooked and bribery-filled state,” he accused.
The president defended his proposal for judicial reform because it guarantees that active judges can be candidates, so they would not lose their jobs but would have automatic passage to the election.