AMLO recognizes that he presented his reform package because elections in Mexico are approaching

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradoracknowledged this Tuesday that the controversial package of 20 reforms that he presented on Monday is due to the fact that the July 2nd elections are approaching, which will define, he said, not only a candidate or party but also a national project.

“(They appeared) because until now the conditions were met and also because the elections are coming and the people will decide.“, said the president at his morning press conference.

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The Mexican leader stated that an election is nothing more than seeing which candidate, party, alliance or coalition wins, “An election also serves to define a national project”.

López Obrador thus referred to the package of 20 reforms, 18 of them constitutional and two legal, that he presented on February 5 to eliminate a series of “anti-popular articles“,”return greatness”to the Magna Carta and protect it from“reactionaries”Four months before the federal elections were held.

Among the main proposals are an electoral reform that aims to limit campaign and party spending, and the elimination of multi-member legislators (proportional representation), which would reduce the Chamber to 300 deputies from the current 500.

Likewise, it also included a reform of the Judicial power reduce the ministers of Supreme Courtwho must also gain their position through popular elections.

In addition, there is also one related to the pension system with which it is intended that Mexicans retire with 100% of the last salary they receive.

López Obrador criticized that previous governments endorsed reforms that were nothing more than “tampering” what “Never”were intended to benefit the people, but“adjust the legal framework to facilitate expropriation, corruption and the handing over of the nation’s assets to a minority”.

“Never in the 36 years of oligarchic government was the Constitution reformed to seek justice, there is nothing to prove it, everything was characterized by the desire for profit and contempt for the majorities”, he concluded.

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The president said it shouldn’t bemiss the historic opportunity“print the Constitution”its democratic and, above all, eminently social character”.

And he argued that these reforms aim to ensure that if opposition parties return to power it will be “very difficult“reverse this new situation and that”new generations can recover the path of justice, peace and democracy”.

This latest package of constitutional reforms became the largest volume of initiatives presented by a president in a single act since the promulgation of the most current constitution in 1917, which completed 107 years on Monday, within the scope of the Constitution Day.

Source: Elcomercio

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