The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, sent two proposals to Congress to reform electoral laws and implement a broad reform of the Judiciary, her government said in a statement this Monday (7).
Congress approved the constitutional reform in September, which stipulates that all judges be elected by popular vote over the next three years.
The ruling Morena party and its allies defended the reform as an improvement to the current judicial system, arguing that it is necessary to eradicate corruption in the judiciary.
“The judicial reform has already been approved, it is constitutional and, in a few days, after the approval of these two laws, the electoral process will begin,” said Sheinbaum during a morning press conference.
According to the government, the two reforms proposed this Monday aim to guarantee the certainty of the election process for judges, judges and magistrates.
An election to replace all Supreme Court judges, reducing their number from 11 to nine, as well as to vote for members of an electoral tribunal and half of the country’s magistrates and district judges, is scheduled for June 1.
Mexico’s Supreme Court voted last week to consider a constitutional challenge to judicial reform and is expected to decide whether the reform affects the independence of the courts.
This content was originally published in President of Mexico sends secondary legislation for judicial reform on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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