“There is demonstrations by young UNAM Law students And I want to tell them, because they have teachers who are surely telling them what it is unfair and illegal carry out a rReform of the Judiciary either undemocratic“They are deceiving them,” said the president. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at his morning press conference this Thursday.
In addition, the president took the opportunity to attack the former minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Diego Valadez Rios and, without saying his name, he said that he wanted to tell the young people that in the Law school and at the Institute of Legal Research of UNAM There are characters like him, who for 30 years He receives more than 200 thousand pesos a month for his retirement and also receives a Extra salary as emeritus professor at UNAM.
Lopez Obrador said that the Neoliberal period destroyed UNAMwhile He defended his Judicial Reform by stating that it means “clean up that corruption and that these abuses never happen again and that we put an end to the hypocrisy, because these gentlemen present themselves as white doves and want to teach us about legality and the rule of law. What rule of law? If they embody the ‘crooked’ state of bribery,” he reproached.
Yesterday, students of the Law school and other universities marched against the reform to Judiciarywhile pointing out that such an amendment would be supporting political interests and ideological above the function jurisdictional.
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Through a letter, the university students They rejected the Judicial Reform and stated that they do not consider the idea of the election of judges by popular vote “constitutes an alternative that guarantees an improvement in the administration of justice in our country.”