The reform of the Judiciary which establishes the election of judges, magistrates and ministers by popular vote, was approved last night, in general, by the Senate of the Republic with 86 votes in favor and 41 against; therefore, neither the occupation of the premises Legislative Reform Not even the forced change of venue could stop it.
“The reform is going ahead,” they shouted in the Full the senators of Morena when Miguel Angel Yunes Linaresalternate senator and father of Senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez arrived, escorted by Morena supporters, to the session hall; however, the laughter changed when workers from the Judicial Branch and law students took, by force, the meeting room. Senate Plenary Sessions.
Yesterday, for the first time in the history of Senate, Civilians managed to break through all the security barriers set up by public security elements in the streets around the legislative complex and the chains placed on the doors by security elements and shouting “the Judiciary It is not going to fall, it is not going to fall,” they entered through the main steps, to the Federalism courtyard, to the boxes and to the session hall.
Despite the resistance of the staff of Safeguarding and Civil Protection, The irruption of protesters, made up mainly of employees of the Judiciary and law students, could not be stopped, breaking glass and wooden doors until they reached the Plenary Hall.
During the break-in, a young man even fainted after falling to the ground due to the pressure from protesters to enter the Plenary and the resistance of Senate staff, and was treated by Civil Protection.
This protest forced the ruling party senators to leave the room in a hurry through alternate doors, before the demonstrators managed to reach the podium, where they were received by the opposition senators from the PRI, PAN and MC benches.
This forced the president of the Board of Directors, Gerardo Fernandez Noroña, formally suspend the session and call on legislators to go to the Old Headquarters of Xicoténcatl to continue the discussion of the reform of the Judicial Branch.
“I have given instructions for parliamentary services to call for the resumption of the session at seven o’clock in the evening at the former headquarters of the Senate of the Republic, known as the Xicoténcatl Mansion. “There will be a reform of the judiciary,” he posted on his social media.
Xico’s headquarterstEncatl was protected by riot police cordons, which at times prevented the senators themselves from entering, as was the case with the PRI members, who arrived all together on board a van directly to argue with the agents to be allowed to pass.
In addition, on his way to the Senate, legislator Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas was attacked with gasoline, which damaged his eyes, he said.
Already at the headquarters of Xicoténcatl, the senator of the PAN, Miguel Angel Yunes Márquez, who had been replaced by his father in the morning, supposedly due to an illness that plagued him, reappeared with a smile when he was received by senators of the Fourth Transformation, consummating with his support the votes necessary to give a qualified majority to the judicial reform.
And indeed, already in the tribune, he announced that he would vote in favor of the initiative despite belonging to the PAN bench, with which Morena and allies obtained the votes needed to approve such constitutional changes by a qualified majority.
The positions for and against continued, until at the end of the PAN bench, in the voice of its coordinator, Guadalupe Murguía, the senators of the PAN, of the PRI and MC They took the podium, also demanding the absence of the senator from MC, Daniel Barreda, who was in Campeche due to the arrest of his father.
In defense of it, the senators of Morena and allies took the lower part of the Board of Directors and at times they exchanged pushes with each other.
While the reform ruling was being discussed inside Xicoténcatl, riot police tried to dissuade with fire extinguishers the workers of the Judicial Branch and Law students who were demonstrating on Eje Central and Calle de Maidens.
At the time of going to press, the senators were beginning to discuss the 79 reservations submitted to the ruling.
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2024-09-13 08:21:26