In PJ reform, the people won: Sheinbaum

President Claudia Sheinbaum highlighted the vote of Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán, who broke the block of those in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) who sought to declare the reform of the Judicial Branch unconstitutional. He stated that “the people of Mexico triumphed and won the force of reason; sanity versus irrationality.

I am very happy! The election of judges, ministers and magistrates takes place on June 1, 2025he expressed.

In the morning, he also disqualified the head of the SCJN, Norma Piña, for trying to change the rules of Tuesday’s session; wanted turn it around, a constitutional pirouettehe defined.

The minister sought that with six votes, not the eight that give a qualified majority, invalidity could be declared, based on the new wording of the Constitution that they are contestingsaid the president.

He commented that it was the ministers Luis María Aguilar and Jorge Pardo Rebolledo who spoke out against that attempt. “They said, ‘We can’t do that,’” he recalled. The six robes are considered for a plenary session composed of nine, not 11, as it is currently.

That’s why I say that The people of Mexico, the Constitution and the rule of law triumph, but reason also prevails over unreason, sanity over madness..

In the National Palace, the President considered that on Tuesday It was a good day; the reform is already part of the Constitution. This decision is more republican because it strengthens the Judicial Branch as an autonomous entity elected by the people. The Republic is stronger than ever.

He highlighted the votes of the ministers Yasmín Esquivel, Loretta Ortiz and Lenia Batres, but particularly that of Pérez Dayán, who I imagine he must have had all kinds of pressure from the other side to not vote as he decided, and it is to be recognized. We may have differences with him, but in that case his presentation is clear..

He imagined what the minister said: I do not agree with the reform, but that does not mean that my personal opinion implies that a project of unconstitutionality can be accepted, because it is already in the Constitution. He even “says that there are other cases where he voted like that… There is coherence in the minister’s vote.”

He mentioned that a series of secondary reforms are coming, and announced that the Organic Law of the Judiciary will soon be presented, where criteria will be established for the Disciplinary Court.

Furthermore, he revealed the plan D that he had ready in case the judicial amendment was declared unconstitutional.

The adversaries wanted to put us in a situation of contempt, and I said: we are going to turn it around, we are going to re-present the reform with two central changes: that the eighth minister could be elected, because Aguilar leaves the Court on November 30, with the previous scheme, and among other things, that the ministers no longer have retirement benefits.

After the 30th, he maintained, we would have had the four necessary ministers. We weren’t going to descend into a confrontation, because that’s what they wanted. Fortunately, reason prevailed and the people triumphed. He also noted that very few people attended the mobilization that the opponents carried out on Tuesday outside the Court.

In the afternoon, in a surprise visit to a registration module for the Mujeres Bienestar pension, in Iztapalapa, the President pointed out that it was something historic in the country that the Court could not reverse the reform of the Judicial Branch.