Already in the middle of the race to decide whether to elect their representative as President of the Republic in the referendum on June 2 next year, the coalition, made up of the parties Morena, Labor and the Greens of Mexico, warned the judges that in 2024 will seek a deep reform of the judiciary to put an end to “the corruption and impunity of their elites”.
The warning came after the Supreme Court yesterday invalidated the second part of the so-called Plan B of electoral reform, i.e. which was rejected in Congress because there was no qualified majority.
In response, the president sent parliamentarians a decree reforming five secondary electoral laws, including one to cut court judges’ extremely high salaries, and that of the electoral court, which he dubbed Plan B, which was immediately challenged.
The court’s argument for the rejection was formal, not substantive, and suggested that its debate was incorrect, although it did not specify nor expressly indicate that it referred to the fact that the opposition bench had left the National Action, Institutional Revolutionary, passed , and the parties of the Democratic Revolution left the chamber and did not vote because their vote would not have stopped the reform, since it would have been enough with the simple majority that the ruling coalition has at its disposal.
“We say to the court: we will defeat them again in the elections,” affirmed Mario Delgado, national president of Morena, while Gonzalo Yáñez of the PT trusted that they would have a qualified majority to “defuse the lazy and corrupt judiciary to convert”. .”
The national leaders of the three parties are taking a seat at the political table to form the coalition with which they hope to secure 33 million votes in the June 2, 2023 general election, three million more than López Obrador did in 2018.
Delgado said they already expected that the court would not side with the people overnight because “it is absolutely on the conservative side.”
He warned that the three parties want an absolute majority in Congress in 2024 and “we tell this conservative bloc once and for all that we are going down the legal, peaceful and democratic path for them.”
He mentioned that the court’s decision “does not change anything” about its decision to secure an overwhelming victory next year and that is why we are here, more united than ever, while the opposition “is on the canvas and defeated”. They have no leadership, no ideas, they have no country project.”
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