The President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorrejected this Saturday that the approval of the reform of the judiciarywhich is about to be discussed in the Senate, will generate economic instability as has been speculated.
“Until today, the peso has not been devalued with us, of course we have about 20 days left and they are trying to confuse us by saying that there is a lot of instability, because we are going to carry out judicial reform. What fear are they going to have, if what we want is to end corruption, to banish corruption?” said the president from Quintana Roo, in the southeast of Mexico.
During the inauguration of the Jaguar National Park and Museum of the Eastern Coast, in which he was accompanied by the President-elect Claudia Sheinbaumagain defended the initiative that was approved on Wednesday by deputies and is now about to be discussed in the Senate to become law.
“(The opposition) is there, trying to stop this reform that is essential because we have to end the revolving door,” he said.
He pointed out that when a criminal is put in jail, after the work it takes to arrest him and the risk to the lives of police officers and members of the police Armed forcesjudges often release them, especially on weekends.
“Pure ‘sabadazo’, a judge orders his release, we do not want that to continue happening in our country,” he added.
He also boasted that during his administration, which began on December 1, 2018, Poverty was reduced, wages increased and the peso was not devalued.
He stated that it will be with the help of the people, that if the bill is approved judicial reform will be able to elect judges, magistrates and ministers, corruption can be cleaned up Judiciary.
The initiative has sparked various protests in Mexico, including a strike at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), as well as student marches against the initiative, which forced the legislators to hold the session in an alternate venue, a sports hall, after the accesses to the Chamber of Deputies were blocked by the protesters.
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The discussion of this reform also occurs amid warnings from multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, business organizations such as the International Chamber of Commerce, American Society, among other financial entities and rating agencies such as Fitch Ratings, Citibanamex, Stanley Morgan, UBS, as well as from the embassies in Mexico of the United States and Canada.