Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Announces Reform of Judicial Branch

(CNN Spanish) –– The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced this Sunday that he had signed a presidential decree on the constitutional reform of the Judiciary, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

Resigning President A Message on your X accountNext to President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, in which she will sign the decree after the initiative is approved by the federal legislative chambers and the majority of state congresses, so that it will then be published in the Mexican Federal Gazette. .

“With the aim of improving the judiciary, justice for all, so there is no corruption in the judiciary. Judges, magistrates, ministers apply to the letter the principle of 'nothing outside the law, no one above the law,'” López Obrador said.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior announced in a statement that the decree had already been issued this Sunday, the same day that the last ceremony of the Freedom Cry will be held in the capital's main square led by López Obrador.

The decree published in the DOF adds and repeals various provisions of the political constitution of the United Mexican States regarding the reform of the judicial branch, a series of changes criticized by the opposition and various national and international organizations.