By Global News Service
The right-wing Mexican opposition has vowed to continue trying to repeal the Judicial Reform approved and signed into law on September 15. According to spokespeople from the right-wing National Action Party (PAN), a set of legal actions will be presented to table the modifications to the constitution that the Judicial Reform entails.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that PAN has every right to file as many complaints or challenges as they consider necessary, although according to him there is no reason to believe that the Judicial Reform is unconstitutional.
Another victory scored by AMLO’s government before the end of his term is the unanimous approval (492 votes in favor, 0 abstentions, and 0 votes against) in the Senate of the Constitutional Reform on the Rights of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples, which seeks, according to the presidency, “to settle the historical debt owed in Mexico and give them recognition as subjects of public, collective and individual law.”
A very important issue is the reform’s recognition of Indigenous normative systems, which, nevertheless, must be harmoniously integrated into the national legal system. Among these mechanisms are the free, prior, and informed consultation of the political processes that affect these territories. According to Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, general coordinator of Indigenous Rights of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), the Reform obliges the Mexican State to adapt its normative framework to international advances and the Reform.
from the Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service
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