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The 2024 Mexican judicial reform is a series of constitutional amendments that restructured the judiciary of Mexico. [1] The reform replaced Mexico's appointment-based system for selecting judges with one where judges, pre-selected by Congress, are elected by popular vote, with each judge serving a renewable nine-year term.
He also defended the reform, stating that the goal was to eliminate corruption and privileges in the judiciary. [10] [12] On 26 August, hundreds of protesters gathered at Mexico City's Angel of Independence to demonstrate against the judicial reform, with no reported incidents. On 29 August, access to the Supreme Court was blocked by protesters.
The 2018 elections saw a landslide victory for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the three-time presidential candidate from the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Running as the candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia alliance, López Obrador won in a landslide with 54.71% of the vote, defeating his closest rival, Ricardo Anaya of the Por México al Frente coalition, by nearly 31 points.
Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a judicial reform that has fueled a court workers' strike, strained relations with the United States and triggered market volatility in Latin America's second ...
Mexican lawmakers were forced to suspend debate on a controversial judicial reform after protesters broke down the doors of the Senate building and forced their way into the upper house’s ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's lower house of Congress approved an overhaul of the country's judiciary early on Wednesday that would usher in a new era of elections for all judges, in a vote ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Lawmakers in Mexico's lower house of Congress approved in general terms a sweeping judicial reform in a committee vote late on Monday, paving the way for a final debate when ...
The reform. The controversial judicial reform, which has caused uncertainty in the markets and a drop in the value of the Mexican peso, calls for the popular election of judges, electoral ...