Mexico City /
President Claudia Sheinbaum assured that the project of the Minister of the Supreme Court, Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá, on the reform of the Judicial Branch – which proposes eliminating the election of judges and magistrates through popular vote – is a political position.
“Appeal to the ministers, if they still have some knowledge of the law, then let them act accordingly, because Minister Alcántara’s project is also one, really, it is a political position, it has nothing to do with the laws or with the Constitution that they also swore to defend,” he accused.
In her morning conference at the National Palace, the president pointed out that the eight ministers of the country’s highest court who resigned from their position are making a political decision regarding judicial reform.
“I still think, look how well thought out I am, that there are ministers within those eight who are going to remember their classes, their history and how are they going to go down in history? Because they know that they are making a political decision, not a legal one, against the people of Mexico and in favor of certain interest groups and their own interests.
“We are going to wait to see what the Court decides, and once the Court makes its decision, we will be able to decide or make a statement, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” he stressed.
Sheinbaum Pardo stressed that the people of Mexico elected her in the elections last June 2, so eight ministers cannot be above the decisions of all the people.
Likewise, the President pointed out that the National Palace has its own budget as a historical monument and that she still does not live there, after Minister González Alcántara Carrancá pointed out that her retirement assets are not comparable to the cost of maintaining a person in the historic site.
“Yesterday Minister González Alcántara Carrancá, really, saying that how much was spent on the National Palace, to begin with I still do not live in the National Palace and secondly, the National Palace has its own budget to preserve this which is a historical monument of all and all Mexicans.
“We would be wrong not to allocate a budget for the conservation of this property, so important for everyone. The expenses that I will have as a person, with my husband in this place, are going to be part of the personal expenses that will be covered with the salary that I have as President of the Republic, but they already reach the limit of talking about a coup d’état, of “They are going to dismiss me, that is, calm down, calm down,” he stressed.
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