Yesterday the first session of the new Congress of the Union was held, where the latest report of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador was distributed and the parliamentary coordinators issued their first message to the people. Morena and allies touted the federal government’s achievements, while opponents called for dialogue and criticized reforms to the famous Plan C.
“If reforms like the judiciary succeed, we will witness the destruction of democracy from within,” said Senator Clemente Castaneda, who coordinates the civil movement in the upper house. “We will not cease to call conscience to complacency over the destruction of democratic republics.”
He asserted that the legislature that installed the Congress began with the “most ambitious and dangerous” agenda of constitutional change in memory in contemporary Mexico. “Methods like the so-called judicial reforms are of great concern. The insistence on ending the militarization of public security without a vision of the state that cares about civilian security institutions is worrisome. It is troubling that, from a prima facie perspective, efforts are made to destroy autonomous bodies without thinking about the consequences of nullifying the exercise of human rights and the historic gains of citizenship that, as a result, many of those active today “have helped to build.”
PAN Representative Noemi Berenice Luna Ayala claimed that the Secretary of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde, will give a speech on behalf of López Obrador during the distribution of the latest government report. He then questioned the “artificial majority” of Morena and allies, which contrasted with what happened in the election. In the wake of Plan C reforms, he recognized that the challenge is “what unites us, democracy, separation of powers and transparency.”
Marcela Guerra Castillo, deputy of the PRI, criticized the reform for the disappearance of autonomous bodies, for which she called for an agreement to improve the country.
After the general session of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies held its first general session to begin the process of approving the reform of the judiciary.
In it, the majority of Morena and allies issued a declaration of public opinion approved by the Constitutional Point Commission, August 26.
And they dismissed two stay orders issued by two district judges. Even Morena’s coordinator, Ricardo Monreal, called Morelos’ fifth district court chief, Martha Eugenia Magana López, and the third district judge in Amparo, Chiapas, Felipe Consuelo Soto, “obscene violators of the Constitution.” “Laws, constitutions, doctrines and jurisprudence help us.”
It is intended to support judicial reform in the lower house this week.
Students at the University of Jalisco marched against the reforms
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