Former President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León criticized the current President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, as he said that she will begin a comprehensive process of reforms to achieve a rule of law and citizen security in Mexico. However, According to the former Mexican president, the Head of the federal Executive seems more committed to following her predecessor’s objective of turning the country into a single-party autocracy.
In an article published in The Washington Post newspaper, the former Mexican president highlighted that Mexico has surpassed its neighbor and partner, the United States, by having its first female leader, although he noted that this pride “must be moderated,” given what is glimpse
He recalled that the reforms enacted between 1994 and 1996, promoted during his government, put an end to the times when Congress and the Judiciary were subordinate to the President of the country.
Zedillo asserted that The above allowed Mexico to become a multiparty democracy with a regular alternation in power and an independent Judiciary.. However, he noted that in the last month of “a presidency characterized by demagoguery, clientelism, incompetence and abuse of power, Andrés Manuel López Obrador decided to dismantle the independent judiciary and the institutions responsible for organizing fair elections.”
Given the changes, The former president indicated that the replacement of the Judiciary is presented as a democratic process, in which the judges will be elected by popular vote from lists of candidates, but he pointed out that “this argument is absurd, since the lists will be determined in the practice by the ruling party.”
He added that Morena legislators relied on a questionable American precedent to justify judicial reform, since even in that country, where the election of judges by popular vote occurs at the state and local level, but not at the federal level or in all the States , has been criticized by legal scholars.
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