Officials accuse Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of bias

Already in the middle of the race towards the decision to choose, through popular consultation, represented by the President of the Republic on June 2 of next year, the coalition composed of the Morena, Labor and Green parties in Mexico, warned the judges that in 2024 they will go for a radical reform of the judiciary to put an end to “corruption Their toast and impunity.”

The warning was issued after the Supreme Court canceled yesterday the second part of the so-called Plan (B) for electoral reform, that is, a decree signed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to replace the Constitutional Reform Act to completely change the judiciary, which was overturned in Congress due to the lack of a qualified majority.

In response, the president sent parliamentarians an ordinance to reform five minor electoral laws, including one for court judges to cut their very high salaries as well as electoral court salaries which he called Plan B, which was promptly challenged.

The Court’s argument in rejecting it was in formality rather than in substance, stating that its argument was not valid, though it did not specify or explicitly indicate that it was referring to the fact that the opposition body made up of the National Action Party, the Institutional Revolutionary. And the revolutionary democratic parties left the room and did not vote because their vote would not have stopped the reform because it was sufficient for the simple majority enjoyed by the ruling coalition.

We say to the court: We will defeat them again at the polls, as Mario Delgado, the national president of Morena, affirmed, while Gonzalo Yanez, from the Workers’ Party, is confident that they will have a qualified majority “to change the corrupt and corrupt judiciary.”

The national leaders allowed the three parties to enter the political table to build the coalition with which they intend to obtain 33 million votes in the general elections on June 2, 2023, an increase of three million over those obtained by López Obrador in 2018.

Delgado said they already expected that the court would not, from day to day, take the side of the people, because it is “totally on the conservative side.”

He warned that the three parties will seek to win an absolute majority in Congress in 2024 and “we say once and for all to that conservative bloc that we are moving in their favor through the legal, peaceful and democratic path.”

He pointed out that the court’s decision “does not change anything” in his decision to achieve a resounding victory next year and that is why we are here, more united than ever while the opposition is “on the canvas, defeated. They have no leadership, ideas, and they do not have a Qatari project.”

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