The two Senate committees that will receive the judicial reform, Constitutional Points and Legislative Studies – both chaired by Morena – were installed this Tuesday.
Immediately after the conclusion of the plenary session on Tuesday, where the composition and presidencies of the 60 ordinary Senate committees were defined, the Legislative Studies and Constitutional Matters committees proceeded to meet to begin their legislative work.
On Monday, Ignacio Mier, vice-coordinator of the Morena party in the Senate, announced that these commissions will be in charge of processing the reform to the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) when it is sent by the Chamber of Deputies.
On the one hand, in the Constitutional Affairs Committee, chaired by Ernestina Godoy, the former capital prosecutor stated that there will be an open dialogue and, nevertheless, argued that majorities will also be built to advance in the fulfillment of the Senate’s responsibilities.
“We will encourage dialogue and the exchange of ideas to enrich our work. This commission will be a space for dialogue but also for building majorities that will allow us to advance in fulfilling our responsibility,” he said.
In parallel, Citlalli Hernández, who will chair the Legislative Studies Commission, declared that there was no deception in announcing that the judicial reform would soon be approved by the commissions and then submitted to the Senate plenary session.
“We have not deceived anyone, we have been saying for a long time, since February 5 when President López Obrador proposed the reform of the Judicial Branch, that the discussion was open, it was open, there were sectors that instead of making proposals and approaches (…) decided to build fatalistic narratives,” he criticized and rejected that it is “a surprise attack.”
“We are in September, the General Congress has been installed, the work has been installed in the Senate and I believe that it is deeply sincere and transparent to tell this commission (…) that it is installed with the intention and clarity that there is a discussion in the Chamber of Deputies and that the minutes will soon reach the Senate and we will surely be in session as soon as possible,” he added.
Following an agreement by the Board of Directors, approved today in the Senate, as soon as the bill on judicial reform is received in the Upper House, the opinion will be sent directly to the committees for analysis, discussion and, if appropriate, approval.
With this, the judicial reform opinion will be sent to the Senate, where the ruling bloc (Morena, PT and PVEM) has 85 votes and is one short of the qualified majority, necessary to approve changes to the Constitution.
Both Godoy Ramos and Hernández Mora will exercise their legislative functions during the month of September, since both are part of Claudia Sheinbaum’s cabinet, who will take office as President on October 1.
Ernestina Godoy will be the legal advisor to the Presidency and Citlalli Hernández, for her part, will head the new Secretariat for Women, one of the two new secretariats that will be created in the Sheinbaum Pardo administration.