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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 the Congress, are elected by popular vote, with each judge serving a renewable nine-year term.
The Judiciary of Mexico, officially the Judicial Power of the Federation (Spanish: Poder Judicial de la Federación; PJF), is one of the three branches of government in Mexico, and the sole federal judiciary power. It is composed of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which serves as its highest court, the Federal Judiciary Council, the ...
The reform would transform the country's judiciary from an appointment-based system to one where judges are elected by popular vote. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] However, the reform was widely denounced by opposition political parties, judicial workers, and international organizations (such as Human Rights Watch [ 6 ] ), who claimed the reform would threaten ...
September 11, 2024 at 6:18 AM. By Diego Oré. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a judicial reform that has fueled a court workers' strike, strained relations with the ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A collection of unions representing Mexico's judicial workers launched an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday ahead of votes by lawmakers on overhauling the country's ...
The U.S. and Mexico are sparring over López Obrador's radical plan to overhaul the judiciary. Security personnel stand at a federal court as court workers gather to strike over reforms that would ...
v. t. e. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Spanish: Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Government. It consists of eleven magistrates, known as ministers of the court, one of whom is ...
Mexico’s proportional representation system was built over decades to chip away at the single-party hegemonic rule under the PRI that dominated Mexican politics from 1929 to 2000, ensuring ...