Sheinbaum dismisses analysis by UNAM academics of AMLO reforms

MEXICO CITY (apro).- The analysis of the Judicial Reform and 19 other initiatives proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that were made by academics from the Institute of Legal Research (IIJ) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) only “is an opinion, it is not the opinion of UNAM or of the entire Institute,” dismissed the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

Questioned this afternoon about the “Technical analysis of the 20 constitutional and legal reform initiatives presented by the President of the Republic (February 5, 2024)”, coordinated by researchers from the aforementioned Institute and released last Friday the 14th, the doctor who graduated from the highest university clarified: “It is not an opinion of the UNAM. UNAM does not have a single opinion.”

Unlike the position of President López Obrador, who this Monday in his “morning” conference launched himself strongly against the UNAM, the former head of government of Mexico City moderated:

“The great virtue of public education institutions, first is that there is academic freedom and second is that all opinions are allowed. There are people from the Legal Research Institute who have this very respectable opinion, but there are other university students who probably have other opinions. “I respect UNAM, that’s where I come from.”

Sheinbaum Pardo reaffirmed “the affection” he has for UNAM, but insisted on the analysis:

“It’s an opinion. It is not the opinion of UNAM or of the entire Legal Research Institute; It is from people who have dedicated themselves to that during their lives that they have a particular opinion.”

“Everyone has their opinion”

At the conference, the press asked the virtual president-elect for her opinion on the position given yesterday by the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) in which it criticized the intention to reform the Judiciary.

She answered:

“Well, they have the right to give their opinion. In some things we agree, in others we don’t. When I went to Coparmex and I have gone, I said: ‘Let’s see, let’s put what we agree on, let’s move forward on what we don’t agree with.’ “Mexico is a democratic country and there will continue to be democracy.”

In the same way, he responded to the multiple criticisms that this intention contemplated in the so-called Plan C has received:

“There will be people who will not agree, because that is democracy. Some out of interest because they already have arrangements with the Judiciary, not legal, not transparent, whether with ministers or judges or magistrates; That is to say, there are some who do not want to out of interest, there will be others who legitimately do not agree with a position like this, ultimately that is democracy.”

And he added: “There are some who say: ‘It should change’, there are others who flat out say no and I have also left, because Mexico is a democratic country.”

Sheinbaum Pardo considered that with the results of the survey “investments do not have to worry… The peso has now stabilized at 18.50 and that is what will happen. The peso is a strong currency and it will continue to be a strong currency and when we enter, it will continue to be so.”