ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR, President of Mexico
“The reform is for the benefit of everyone, including businessmen and investors. It is about achieving a genuine rule of law in the country, that the government is not at the service of a groupthat the government represents all Mexicans, rich and poor. This gives confidence to the investor, true confidence, not that we have a Judicial Branch where there is no real competition because monopolies predominate, because they have more leverage, more influence in the Judicial Branch; because it is supposed to be an autonomous and independent power, but in reality it is not so, It is autonomous and independent of the people, not of the potentates.”.
Students of the UNAM Faculty of Law
“We reject and disagree with the #JudicialReform. As future legal professionals and citizens, we highlight the direct threat to our academic and professional training”.
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, President-elect of Mexico
“Dialogue will never be closed, but there are things that concern us Mexicans, and others that concern the relationship with the neighboring country. In the case of judicial reform, it is a Mexico’s sovereign decisionwhile with the United States we do not have to discuss everything”.
CANADIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN MEXICO
“These reforms may have negative implications on the certainty, transparency and professionalism in the management of the matters that these entities are responsible for.”
RICARDO MONREAL, Morena activist
“The Reform of the Judiciary is a popular mandate that Morena and its allies will fulfill; However, we will listen to all parties. It is important to heed what citizens said at the polls, so we will be responsible, careful and prudent when establishing these modifications to the Magna Carta.”.
WORKERS OF THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF THE FEDERATION
“We marched from the Monument to the Revolution to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), demonstrating against the initiative to reform the PJF. Our slogans are: Judicial Power, national counterweight; If the people are informed, the Reform will not pass; We are not opposition, we serve the Nation; Judicial Power Present; Without Judicial Power, who will take care of you? Democracy Yes, Dictatorship No?.
ARTURO ZALDÍVAR, former minister of the Supreme Court
“The social legitimacy of the Mexican justice system has been broken for a long time. But perhaps it has never been in a worse situation than now, if we ask the people who participated in the dialogues for transformation, people tell you that we have a elitist justice“a justice that privileges those who have over those who do not, that mistreats women, that punishes poverty and not crime, and that has no social legitimacy.”
THE WASHINGTON POST
“The United States is right to intervene in the issue of reforms to the Judicial Branch because what At stake are judicial independence and the rule of law in a country that has known too little of either throughout its history. López Obrador’s plan could also curbing North American economic integration. Through their shared border and their partnership in the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, Mexico and the United States have mutual interests in issues spanning trade, migration, organized crime, and national security.”.