In Mexico, the judicial revolution of President “Amlo” worries and mobilizes – Libération

Before leaving power in early October, the outgoing president wants to adopt a reform that provides for the election of the country’s judges. Judicial and economic circles see this as an attack on the independence of justice.

Deaf to the protests, the Mexican president persists. On Sunday, September 8, thousands of demonstrators marched in Mexico City against the judicial reform of the outgoing head of state Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Amlo), who will leave office at the end of the month. His flagship measure: the election of the country’s judges and magistrates through a “popular vote.” For the left-wing president, this constitutional revolution will help combat the endemic corruption and impunity of the Mexican justice system. For his detractors, on the contrary, it risks undermining the independence of the judiciary and making it even more susceptible to the influence of drug cartels.

On strike since last week, the Supreme Court, through its president Norma Piña, denounced a company “demolition of the judiciary”. On Sunday, thousands of law students and judicial officials demonstrated in the capital. But in Congress, where the presidential party and its allies enjoy a very large majority, the reform continues its path, despite a slight delay due to the blockade, on Tuesday, by demonstrators, of the San Lázaro Palace, where the Chamber of Deputies sits. Relocated the next day to a sports center