Mexico Lawmakers Shield Judicial Overhaul From Court Decisions
- Ruling party seeks to protect reforms from legal challenges
- Supreme Court to meet next week to review judicial reform
Judicial workers protest outside the Lighthouse of Commerce in Monterrey, Mexico on Oct. 9.
Photographer: Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images
Mexico’s Lower House voted to shield changes to the constitution from being impacted by Supreme Court decisions, days before a meeting of the top court to review a controversial overhaul of the country’s judiciary.
The ruling coalition approved Wednesday a constitutional amendment in the Lower House to protect the government’s constitutional reforms with 340 votes in favor, 133 against and one abstention, comfortably surpassing the two-thirds majority required to change the constitution. The proposal had already been approved by Senate and will now be voted on by state legislatures, where the ruling Morena party holds large majorities, before President Claudia Sheinbaum can sign it into law.