University students against changes to the judiciary

Exclaiming that judicial reform It is a revenge and a presidential whimstudents from different universities, institutes and research centers, mainly from the law school, joined their clamor against this.

Regardless of whether they were from public or private higher education institutions, they marched together from the Angel of Independence to the Senate. Amid drumming and slogans such as We are lawyers, we are not hired hands o UNAM saw me grow and the Judiciary saw me practiceThey walked for two hours to the legislative building that is across Insurgentes Avenue.

Students from UNAM, the Escuela Libre de Derecho, the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), the ITAM and the IPN chanted Mexico holds on, students rise upin rejection of the reform that seeks to change the way in which magistrates, ministers and judges will be appointed throughout the country.

Exams yes, raffle noshouted the students from different higher education institutions at the front of the march, shortly after 9:30 a.m., heading to the Senate.

Dressed mostly in white T-shirts, the protesters chanted slogans such as Lack of preparation is also corruption, We are lawyers, we are not hired hands y Where are they, where are the senators who were going to listen to us?.

The march included figures such as former minister José Ramón Cossío Díaz and former counselor Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, who avoided making statements to the press, because Today is youth day, they are leading the protestCossío commented to The Day just like Córdova Vianello.

Law students gathered yesterday at the Independence Column. Photo by Yazmin Ortega Cortes

The Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, José Luis González Alcántara Carrancá, also joined the contingent, while those present shouted This minister does represent us. On the contrary, some replied The one who doesn’t jump is Leniain reference to Minister Batres, who has promoted the benefits that judicial reform would bring.

The enthusiasm of the students was accompanied by the persistence of workers from different courts of the Judicial Branch, who stated We are not opposition, we serve the nationin addition to pointing out that the Chief Justice of the Court, Norma Piña, She is not alone.

Once gathered outside the Upper House headquarters, which was surrounded by metal fences, they improvised a rally on the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Paris Street. They also covered the fences of this building with the posters, banners and tarps they showed during the demonstration.

Despite their efforts, the sound from the speakers was weak and only a few were able to hear the protest against this reform, but under the same conclusion: that regardless of the institution they belong to, public or private, they must be united to defend the Judicial Branch.

At the end, they sang the National Anthem while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for a show of hands to elect judges by popular vote in the Zócalo.