Politics: Third-way option for 2024 emerges as tensions mount between AMLO and the Judiciary

MEXICO - Report 13 Feb 2023 by Guillermo Valdes and Francisco González

Efforts to build a new opposition force ahead of the 2024 elections took a new step on January 30 when a broad array of citizens and current and former politicians presented a platform that offers an alternative to both supporters of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Fourth Transformation (4T) and the Va por México coalition of traditional parties (PAN, PRI, PRD). Signatories to the Collective for Mexico’s Point of Departure document, the result of months of discussions among civil society activists and prominent individuals from numerous academic and political fields, include leaders of the Citizens Movement (MC) party along with prominent former PRI politicians and even former PAN presidential candidate and current Senator Josefina Vázquez Mota, all of whom were present at the event.
The MC’s presence at the launch underscored Party President Dante Delgado’s determination to mount a strong presidential campaign independent of the PAN-PRI-PRD link-up in the hopes of emerging from the 2024 contest as the country’s second strongest electoral force, a tall order and a risky bet at a time when other MC leaders are arguing that the party should go alongside the other opposition parties.

A few days after the Collective for Mexico announcement, on February 5, tensions between all three powers of government were clearly visible. During an official event celebrating the 1917 promulgation of Mexico’s constitution the heads of the Supreme Court and the Chamber of Deputies used their speaking time to indirectly criticize AMLO’s institutional overreach and the threats his moves pose to the Constitution and democracy.

López Obrador has repeatedly claimed the country’s judiciary is "the last link where corruption predominates", and displays of his ire will likely intensify as the High Court is expected to take up multiple suits questioning the legality of many of the administration’s reforms and other policy moves. And on the horizon lurks another conflict between the government and the Judiciary: a constitutional reform initiative, promoted by Morena Senate leader Ricardo Monreal, to strip the Supreme Court’s role over the Federal Council of the Judiciary (FCJ).

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