Mexican president wants voters to choose Supreme Court judges
Online News Editor
May 9, 2023
Mexico City, May 9 (EFE).- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday that he will propose a constitutional amendment to place the selection of Supreme Court judges in the hands of the electorate.
“So the people choose the judges, as established in the liberal constitution of 1857, in the era of President (Benito) Juarez,” the leftist head of state, commonly known as AMLO, said during his daily morning press conference.
His comments came a day after Mexico’s highest court struck down part of an electoral reform package supported by the administration.
AMLO said that he will submit the proposed amendment to Congress in September 2024, three months before the end of his mandate but after general elections in which the governing coalition hopes to regain the two-thirds legislative majority needed to amend the constitution.
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