Chamber of Deputies declares validity of “constitutional supremacy”

Mexico City. In a session that lasted just 15 minutes, the Chamber of Deputies declared this afternoon the validity of the so-called “constitutional supremacy”, through which the inadmissibility of amparo trials against reforms or additions to the Magna Carta is established, and that annuls controversies or unconstitutionality actions.

Without the presence of the parliamentary groups of PAN, PRI and MC, which announced that they would not attend to “not validate” the amendment to articles 105 and 107 of the Constitution – endorsed by 23 state legislatures in less than 24 hours -, The session began with a quorum of 253 legislators from the majority parties, just two more than the minimum required.

There were 59 absences from the Morena bench alone, among them Rocío Abreu, Daniel Asaf, Olga Sánchez Cordero, Ignacio Mier Bañuelos, José Narro, Carlos Ulloa and the president of the Constitutional Points Commission, Leonel Godoy Rangel.

Once the session began, the coordinator of the cherry bench, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, took the stand to highlight that the reform of “constitutional supremacy” is “the most profound in the country’s 200 years of life. “No one dared and no one had the qualified majority that the people granted us.”

In a message exclusively for his bench and allies, the president of the Political Coordination Board added that “the stridency, the noise, the insult, the confusion, do not make it possible to assess in its proper dimension what the Legislative Branch, converted in Permanent Constituent, is doing.”

In that tone, he assured that “it is false that the amparo trial, unconstitutionality actions or constitutional controversies end. “Those institutions remain unscathed, untouched.”

Monreal highlighted that on very few occasions in history has a constitutional reform body been formed that has a majority in both chambers of Congress and in state legislatures, and cited the work of jurist Felipe Tena Ramírez, according to which “no judge, minister or magistrate can annul a legal norm of the reforming body” of the Constitution.

He told the majority deputies: “you should feel calm and satisfied because what we did was reaffirm what the Constitution already says: the unimpeachability, the inadmissibility of appeals against the reforms and additions to the Constitution.”

The above, he emphasized, because various district judges have made an “attempt to abuse” the Magna Carta and have improperly granted protections and suspensions against the already approved reform to the Judicial Branch of the Federation.

For this reason, he said to applause, “in the face of the abuse of the toga, the law; against the abuse of the judge, magistrate or minister, the Constitution. We have done it in an institutional, peaceful manner, in accordance with the procedure that the Magna Carta dictates to us.”

Monreal even highlighted that in the resignation letter of the minister president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Norma Piña, she highlights that her resignation is due to the fact that “the constitutional text that governs us, obliges us.”

Following the message from the Morenoist coordinator, the president of the Board of Directors of the Chamber, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, declared the constitutionality of the reform “in terms of the unchallengeability of the additions or reforms to the federal Constitution,” and sent it to the Senate.