Students from various public and private universities marched together with people called by the Pink Tide to show their rejection of judicial reform. Both demonstrations decided to join together and march together from the Angel of Independence to the Senate of the Republic in repudiation of what they consider the loss of counterweights and autonomy of judges, magistrates and ministers.
More than three thousand people chanted slogans such as “The impartial judge is a career judge” and “I do work, I don’t do morning press conferences” on the way to the Legislative building located on Paseo de la Reforma.
Participants also shouted “Mr. Senator, stop the dictator” to demand that the senators keep their promise to defend the Constitution and not give a single vote in favor of this reform, which they consider “terrifying” and a “presidential whim.”
For almost two hours, the demonstration was carried out in a calm manner and led by students from UNAM, as well as from other higher education institutions, who joined their voices to call the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a dictator, to whom they shouted “Understand Andrés, you are not a judge.”
Amidst Mexican flags, rattles, drums and whistles, they demonstrated their rejection of the election of judges by popular vote because that is not what the more than 35 million people who voted for Morena on June 2 asked for.
In this march, the former president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, as well as the former president of the IFE, José Woldenberg, walked together to support this “struggle” of students and civil society, said Córdova.
Students from the Faculty of Law of the National University held a rally in front of the gates and exterior steps of the Senate, where they set up a platform and sound system to ask opposition senators not to let this reform pass.
“We ask the senators not to let down the country, which is in their hands to prevent the judicial reform from being passed and to be on the side of the rule of law, to endorse the Constitution and the laws that emanate from it,” said Patricia Aguayo, spokesperson for the workers of the Judicial Branch.
After the university students spoke, the spokesperson for the Judicial Branch workers signed a human barrier to allow a group of opposition senators to enter the Legislative building.
“We are going to give our support to those 43 heroes who are going to pass through here,” they said while the attendees applauded and showed their support for the legislators with phrases such as “you are not alone.”
Former minister José Ramón Cossío Díaz then took the floor to emphasize that this reform seeks “atrocities and particular benefits, such as centralizing power and minimizing checks and balances.”
“Once again, sadly, by invoking the people, they want to elect judges with ineffective processes under the bias of the power that will propose them,” he warned.
Although he admitted that there are political influences and interests among ministers, magistrates and judges, he stressed that this reform seeks to control the judges of today and tomorrow through “remote legitimation.” “They have not considered that the influences that already exist, the participation of criminals, is stronger.”
He said that this would put at risk the mediation of the law itself and that judges have to build their own electoral clienteles and satisfy their own interests.
After his speech, the attendees sang the National Anthem, concluding the activity with “Long live the free judiciary!” “Long live justice!” and “Long live Mexico!”
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– 2024-09-09 13:40:58
