The Supreme Court of Mexico began a discussion on Tuesday to determine whether to invalidate part of a controversial judicial reform approved in September by the ruling party because it considers it unconstitutional.
The plenary session of the highest jurisdictional authority, made up of 11 ministers – including its president – debates a draft sentence to suppress, among other things, the election of judges and magistrates by popular vote, one of the core points of the constitutional reform promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The Court’s ruling threatens to unleash a clash of powers, after Congress, dominated by the ruling party, approved a constitutional reform at the end of October to ensure that amendments to the Magna Carta are immune to challenges such as unconstitutionality actions, constitutional controversies or amparo trials.
The rule also provided for its retroactive application, which would prevent the Court from reviewing the judicial reform, whose approval has hit the markets and scared investors in the second largest economy in Latin America.
Three of the 11 ministers of the Court have publicly expressed themselves in favor of judicial reform.
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