By Deutsche Welle
05 Sep 2024, 09:39 AM EDT
A federal judge from the city of Cuernavaca, state of Morelos, central Mexico, granted a definitive suspension against the discussion and approval in the Chamber of Deputies of the reform of the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF).
With this decision They are trying to prevent judicial reform from being implementedwhich was already approved by the Chamber of Deputies this Wednesday and was passed to the Mexican Senate, where it will begin discussion on September 8 and will be voted on in the plenary session on the 11th of the same month.
357 votes in favor, 130 against and 0 abstentions. The Plenary approves, in general and in particular, the opinion that reforms, adds and repeals various provisions of the Political Constitution, in matters of reform of the #JudicialPower. Go to @senadomexicano
— H. Chamber of Deputies (@Mx_Diputados) September 4, 2024
The fifth district judge in Morelos, Martha Magaña López, granted the suspension in the same protection in which, on August 31, she had granted a provisional measurein which he prohibited congressmen from discussing the aforementioned ruling. Magaña López ordered the parliamentary parties not to approve, in this case in the Mexican Senate, the initiative already voted on in the Chamber of Deputies.
“The ruling cannot be considered, much less approved, by the new legislature, and they must refrain from sending it to the legislatures of the states and Mexico City for approval until the amparo trial is definitively resolved,” the resolution reads.
“At the moment that the legislative process is taking place, this is before the draft initiative for constitutional reform which will be voted on in the Senate and then approved by local legislatures, it is feasible to suspend the challenged act to analyze it, in light of the complaints of the complainants, as it has not materialized,” the text added.
The reform of the Judicial Branch – promoted by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which seeks to elect by popular vote judges, magistrates and ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) – has sparked various protests, including a strike at the SCJN.
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