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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.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A highly contested proposal on judicial reform that critics say will hurt Mexico's business climate edged closer to approval when senators late on Sunday backed it at the ...
Defenders of the reform have also pointed to the United States as an example of a long-running model for judicial elections. But the comparison between the two countries is inadequate, said ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's ruling bloc appeared to secure the necessary votes to pass a judicial reform bill on Tuesday evening after an opposition senator dramatically broke party ranks to ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Mexican judges are raising alarms in the United States over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed judicial reform, which opponents see as a death knell for Mexican democracy. The ...