Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Announces Judiciary Reform

(CNN Spanish) –– Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Sunday that he signed the presidential decree for constitutional reform of the judiciary and it was published in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF).

The outgoing president launched a Message on your X accountalongside President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, who explained that after the approval of the two federal legislative chambers and the majority of state councils of the initiative, he would sign the decree so that it would later be published in the Mexican Federal Gazette.

“In order to improve the judiciary because we want justice to reach everyone, so that there is no corruption in the judiciary. Judges and ministers are literally applying the principle of ‘nothing is outside the law and no one is above the law,’” López Obrador said.

Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry announced in a statement that the decree was actually published on Sunday, the same day that the final ceremony of the Cry of Independence took place in the main square of the capital under the presidency of Lopez Obrador.

The decree published in the Ministry of Finance Reforms adds and repeals various provisions of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States regarding the reform of the judiciary, a series of changes that have been criticized by the opposition and various national and international organizations.