Mexico City. When inaugurating the sixteenth University Legal Meeting and the Literary Legal Exhibition in which the central theme is “the dilemmas and challenges of the reform of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF)”, the minister president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, criticized this Thursday that the Constitution has suffered an excess of modifications that “erode its stability and legitimacy.”
In this meeting with university students and judicial authorities, the challenges involved in judicial reform will be addressed, through keynote conferences, dialogue tables, participatory spaces, workshops and literary presentations.
“Since its promulgation in 1917, the Mexican Constitution has already had more than 800 modifications, an unequivocal sign of constitutional permeability that, like Janus, has two faces. On the one hand, adaptability as a living, dynamic text, precisely permeable to the new and emerging rules of the game. But it also implies that excessive flexibility when it comes to being modified erodes its stability and legitimacy, violating its attributes, such as that protective mantle of certainty, trust, security and, above all, unity between Mexican men and women.” he said from the alternate headquarters of the Court on Avenida Revolución.
He argued that a constitutional reform is the federal pact that allows the differences between the Powers of the Union to be overcome “and to agree on the fundamentals; “It is the center of gravity where the goals and institutional frameworks converge to become the Mexico that we can and should be.”
Piña Hernández called on young university students to “do not forget that the Independence and responsibility of judges are fundamental elements to promote and maintain society’s trust in the Judiciary, remain faithful to their convictions and advocate for legal security , for dignity, for freedom and for justice.”
He also emphasized that democracy implies coexistence between majorities and minorities.
“Never forget that constitutional democracy implies living in a community of citizens in freedom where majorities and minorities coexist, where no state of affairs can constitute a domain to defeat or bury the universal, interdependent, indivisible and progressive fundamental rights of the human being. ”, he concluded.
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