The Senate was debating a controversial bill that would make significant changes to the country’s legal system.
The session of the Mexican Senate has been suspended after hundreds of protesters broke into the Senate building, Mexican media reports La Jornada and El Universal.
The Senate was debating a controversial bill that would make significant changes to the country’s legal system.
According to La Jornada, the protesters in front of the building had entered the building just moments before the Senate was scheduled to start voting on the reform. The protesters who invaded the session hall shouted slogans, calling the decision-makers, among other things, traitors.
The implementation of the reform is tight
The outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the reform, thousands of judges, including the judges of the country’s highest court, would be elected by popular vote.
López Obrador and who will take office next month by Claudia Sheinbaum according to the reform, judges would be held accountable for their decisions and corruption would decrease. According to those criticizing the reform, it is an attempt by the ruling Morena party to take an even firmer grip on power.
In the Senate, the passage of the bill would require a two-thirds majority, and the vote is expected to be tight. Morena and its allied parties would only need the vote of one opposition senator to approve the bill.
Sources: AFP, Reuters