The Mexican Bar Association (BMA) and the General Council of Mexican Bar Associations (CGAM) called on the “reforming power of the Constitution” to generate consensus and achieve a reform of the Judiciary that “truly brings justice closer to the people seeking justice without affecting the judicial career or the rights of workers and those who … Read more
Mexico City. U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar said Thursday that the eventual approval of the judicial reform proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “represents a risk to the functioning of Mexico’s democracy and the integration of our economies under the USMCA.” At a last-minute press conference, the White House official, who had expressed his positive … Read more
Mexico City. The ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) did not carry out this Thursday the analysis of the draft reform of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF), which the federal deputies will rule on next Monday. The analysis of the draft bill in the Court began last Tuesday … Read more
Mexico City. By reiterating that the judges who have joined the strike in the Judicial Branch, against the reform of this sector, should not receive their salary while they are not performing their duties since “it is unethical,” the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, stressed that there are also rules for initiating strikes or stoppages, and “this … Read more
Mexico City. After being closed to the public for almost two years, the main door of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) opened this Thursday to let out more than a thousand workers of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF), who organized a demonstration against the initiative to reform that sector … Read more
If last year was a celebration of economic optimism in Mexico, this week felt like a hangover. The tensions that began with the overwhelming victory of the ruling party and its allies in the June 2 elections reached feverish proportions when the markets, investment banks, employers and even the US ambassador warned strongly about the … Read more
Mexico City. President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum met this afternoon with Morena legislators and her team in charge of analyzing the reform of the Judicial Branch. Upon leaving the transition house, Senator Ricardo Monreal, and Deputies Ignacio Mier and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, stated that despite the position of the United States ambassador, Ken Salazar, the analysis of … Read more
“We have downgraded Mexico’s rating to UW following the executive branch’s judicial reform proposal to Congress. We believe that replacing the judicial system would increase Mexico’s risk premiums and limit capital spending. This is problematic, as nearshoring is already reaching bottlenecks,” Morgan Stanley said in a report. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s judicial reform proposal … Read more
The National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (JUFED) called on its members to vote “for the temporary suspension of jurisdictional activities derived from the Judicial Reform initiative presented by the Executive Branch, which will be discussed by the Legislative Branch.” The organization points out that in … Read more
The Union of Workers of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (STPJF) stated that sectional secretaries and “members of the National Executive Committee, have received “calls or messages” in which some justice administrators have threatened them “to show solidarity with the suspension of work” that is planned against the approval of the judicial reform. The … Read more