Outgoing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signed into law on Sunday the controversial and unique law in the world on the election of all judges and magistrates by “popular vote,” which worries the United States, investors and the judiciary.
“I will sign the decree for the publication of the reform of the Constitution with the objective of improving the judiciary,” outgoing left-wing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a video.
Then, we see him signing the document at the end of the recording with at his side the future president Claudia Sheinbaum, who will take power on the 1er October after winning the June 2 elections.
Both represent the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), which has more than a two-thirds majority in the Congress of Deputies and is close to one vote in the Senate, which allowed the rapid adoption of the constitutional reform.
“We need justice to reach everyone, that there is no corruption in the judiciary, that judges, magistrates, ministers [membres de la Cour suprême] “They apply to the letter the principle that nothing is outside the law, and no one is above the law,” he said from the National Palace.
The outgoing president called for “a genuine rule of law” when he signed the decree on the national Independence Day.
“It was said that we lived in a democracy, but no. An oligarchy dominated. These were the ones who dominated,” he said.
“There was a simulation. Now it’s different. But it’s really the people who command, it’s the people who decide,” he continued.
In the evening, the president will launch in front of the crowd gathered in Zocalo – the central square of the capital Mexico City – the last “cry” of independence of his mandate, celebrating the start of the march towards independence in 1810.