Fecha Publicación: 30-01-2024

As President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s term nears its end later this year, his battle against Mexico’s independent institutions is acquiring a new focus: the Supreme Court.

AMLO is pursuing an initiative for justices to be elected through popular vote, just as the high court is set to decide on a number of key issues, including a recent electricity industry law, the nationalization of lithium, and a dozen state-level electoral reforms.

Across the first five years of his six-year term, AMLO’s attacks on Mexico’s independent institutions have ranged from pushing constitutional and legal reforms that would diminish their powers, to aiming public comments at their leadership, to budget cuts and more. The Supreme Court has often served as an effective counterweight—but it, too, is in AMLO’s crosshairs.

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