“We are not going to dispense with procedures”: Monreal on “supremacy” reform

Mexico City. After receiving from the Senate the minutes of the “constitutional supremacy” reform – which was approved in the Upper House early Friday morning – the Constitutional Points Commission (CPC) of the Chamber of Deputies convened a meeting this Sunday. session to publicize the document, and begin the procedures for its ratification now.

Although today, during the formal installation of the CPC, opposition deputies called for sufficient time to study the opinion, the president of the commission, Leonel Godoy Rangel (Morena), called an extraordinary meeting the day after tomorrow at 6 p.m. for the discussion and eventual approval of the reform of articles 105 and 107 of the Constitution.

PAN member Annia Gómez Cárdenas asked the CPC to follow what is established in article 177 of the Chamber’s regulations, according to which opinions must be circulated in committees five days in advance, before calling a session to debate them.

In the same sense, Irais Reyes (MC) called on his colleagues to take “seriously” and give “study time” to the analysis of the initiative, through which it is established that no protections, controversies or any other legal recourse is applicable in against constitutional reforms.

“We need to consult the academy, the organizations; It is not a reform that is small. […] Let us respect the times indicated in the regulations and give us enough notice to study an issue of great importance,” he requested.

Given the concern about this aspect, Godoy indicated that the CPC board of directors – made up of all the parliamentary groups – would define the date of the next meeting taking into account what the majority said, and trying to give “the greatest number of days possible” to study the document.

However, at the same time he recalled that it is only mandatory to give a period of 48 hours, after receiving a minute, to make an extraordinary appointment to discuss it, and not the five days requested by the opposition.

Before the CPC installation meeting, the coordinator of the Morena bench in San Lázaro, Ricardo Monreal, had assured that the discussion on the reform of “constitutional supremacy” would not accelerate.

“We are not going to dispense with procedures, we are not going to shorten any of them; We are going to respect them scrupulously so that there is a broad discussion and that the ruling commissions and the Plenary are very clear in the discussion” of the minutes, he said.

Evaluation committee for judicial candidates ready next Monday

The president of the Political Coordination Board also welcomed the fact that in the Senate there was “sensitivity” to remove from the initiative the parts that most worried the opposition. “For me it is a correct, convenient reform and, once (the possibility of changes in constitutional articles) 1 and 103 was eliminated, we are able to advance in the deliberation and, where appropriate, the approval of the minutes. ”.

— Did you realize that maybe it was a mistake? he was asked.

— Well, maybe yes, but it’s already over. The important thing is to reaffirm the strict meaning of what the Permanent Constituent Assembly expressed.

On the other hand, Monreal Ávila recalled that next Tuesday is the deadline to designate the members of the Evaluation Committee of the candidates to occupy positions of judges, ministers and magistrates, and of the Judicial Disciplinary Court, which will replace the Council of the Federal Judiciary.

For this reason, he indicated that on Monday the Chamber of Deputies could have a list of possible members of said Committee, which “will be stripped and shaken of friends, partisan sympathizers or people who do not have the legal capacity to become judges.” ”.

Likewise, he announced that next week the laws on the Judicial Career, on the Responsibilities of Public Servants and the Organization of the Federal Judicial Branch could be presented in San Lázaro, which are part of the package of norms “indispensable to regulate the constitutional reform.”