Mexico’s president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed to press ahead with her party’s controversial plans to overhaul the judiciary by directly electing top judges, in comments that hit the peso late on Monday.
In her first news conference since her landslide win, Sheinbaum said discussion of the judicial reform would begin immediately, with a view to approving it in the first months of the new legislature, which convenes in September.
“There should be a broad discussion in these months so people get to know it,” she said at the National Palace after a lunch with outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, her political mentor.
Only one country, socialist Bolivia, currently elects supreme court judges, according to the Federal Judicial Center.
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Oh boy. This will be a wild ride.
“If only someone had alerted us to these tendencies of Amlo and Morena!”, scream investors as they run towards the exit, sad to see Amlo’s generous gift of easy carry fade forever into oblivion.
This is mainly an effort to discredit independent institutions and ensure judges dependent on ruling party largesse. “The people” mostly vote for party slates without much attention paid to down ballot qualifications. Pity the poor defendant in a trial where the party can quietly threaten withdrawal of campaign support next time around if a judge doesn’t render “the right” verdict. Even worse if criminal cartels are pulling strings in the background.
The US elected judges demonstrate incompetence and political as well as personal bias, having the most competent elected by their peers works well for impartial judges and a independent legal system
She is a hard core leftist at heart. The smart technocratic envelop doesn’t change this. Exactly the same as Dilma in Brazil. The future outcome is written all over the wall…
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