The 2024 Judicial Reform in Mexico - On the Erosion of Democratic Checks and Electoral Manipulation

Abstract

On September 11, 2024, the Senate of Mexico approved the controversial judicial reform. The ruling party, MORENA, achieved adopting the judicial reform thanks to a qualified majority in Congress and Senate. In this blogpost, we show that the way in which the judiciary reform was passed in the Senate cannot be considered as “expressing the will of the people”. We suggest that the very way in which the Senate vote came to pass is undermining one main justification of the judiciary reform, namely that it will lead to a judiciary “of the people”.

Keywords

• Democratic Backsliding
• Mexican Supreme Court
• Mexiko
• judicial reform
• Mexiko