The Mexican Senate approved early Friday morning a constitutional reform proposed by the ruling party to shield the changes to the Magna Carta made by Congress.
The initiative, which now goes to the Chamber of Deputies and must then be ratified by a majority of local congresses, aims to proclaim that the constitutional reforms cannot be challenged, which would shield the entire package of more than 20 from any judicial action. changes launched by Morena, the party of President Claudia Sheinbaum and her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, including the controversial restructuring of the Judiciary.
The project was approved by 85 votes in favor of the ruling Morena party and its partners and 41 against.
The proposal indicates that, in the case of additions or reforms to the Constitution, actions of unconstitutionality, constitutional controversies and amparos are inadmissible, that is, the three mechanisms that exist to review acts of power depending on whether they come from legislators, states or individuals.
In addition, the text has a transitional article that aspires for the change to have retroactive effect, something that is legally questioned and that would affect the dozens of appeals that currently exist against the reform of the Judicial Branch.
The proposal has raised concern among experts and academics. Opposition senator Guadalupe Murguía, of the National Action Party, said that “Morena seeks an authoritarian government, Morena is the dictatorship of Mexico.”
For his part, Alejandro Moreno, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, maintained that this change will generate uncertainty and weaken confidence in the Mexican State.
President Sheinbaum celebrated the progress of the text in Congress on Friday.
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