After last Thursday, October 3, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) decided, with eight votes in favor and three againstreview the reform of the Judiciary promoted by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president Claudia Sheinbaum assured that this action has no basis, while making it clear that I wasn’t going to fall for provocations.
In front of the press that gathered at the Guillermo Prieto Room of National Palace, the activist of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) recalled that the same Political Constitution of the United Mexican States sets out in article 39 how it must be reformed Carta Magnawhich in turn led her to read it in order to make her point clear, while also reading article 135 of the same.
What this article says is: “National sovereignty resides essentially and originally in the people. All public power emanates from the people and is instituted for their benefit. The people have at all times the inalienable right to alter or modify the form of their government”, while 135 reads: “This Constitution may be added or reformed. For the additions or reforms to become part of it, it is required that the Congress of the Union, by the vote of two-thirds of the individuals present, agree on the reforms or additions, and that they be approved by the majority. of the legislatures of the States and of Mexico City. The Congress of the Union or Permanent Commission, if applicable, will count the votes of the Legislatures and declare whether the additions or reforms have been approved.”
“The 39 comes from the Sentiments of the Nation of (José María) Morelos. What does 135 say? (…) Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the court can change the constitution or can declare unconstitutional what has already been declared constitutional,” she said emphatically.
It should be noted that prior to this clarification, the president recalled that the Morena coalition, Green Environmental Party of Mexico y Labor Party They have a qualified majority, which approved the reform of the Judiciary and therefore, the vote that the ministers carried out was a form of provocation in which she would not fall, while insisting that the reform is valid based on what is stated by law.
“We are not going to fall for any provocation. There is going to be an election of judges, magistrates, ministers of the Supreme Court, because that is what the 39th Constitution says, There is no basis for what the Court or eight ministers of the Court are doing.; They know because they are lawyers, they know formally and have read the Constitution and applied the Constitution, sometimes not because they protect privileges, to begin with their own, those of the 400 thousand pesos they earn, they know that what they are doing is wrong.”
The votes that were received against last Thursday, October 3, were from the ministers Yasmín Esquivel, Lenia Batres and Loretta Ortíz, who argued that the Court should not intervene in the decisions of the Judiciary.
For this reason, President Claudia Sheinbaum made her position known through Mañanera del Pueblo, especially because, despite the reform promoted by the now former President López Obrador being declared constitutional, the Supreme Court has not yet set a date for discuss the substance of the issue they voted on.