Workers of the Judicial Branch accuse the legislators who voted in favor of the judicial reform of being traitors; they throw foam from fire extinguishers at them.
The constant sound of drums and the shouts that have been heard outside the Senate since Thursday began to get louder and louder, while PAN member Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez finished speaking on the platform against the reform to the Judicial Branch that was starting to be discussed in the plenary session.
The shouts of the Judicial Branch workers, law students from different public and private universities, law teachers, judges, and magistrates who demanded to be heard flooded the Federalism Patio of the Senate.
Hundreds of protesters crowded the steps, invaded the patio, and began to climb to the second floor to enter the Senate plenary from there. And they succeeded. They entered through the balconies for the guests. They waved their Mexican flags and shouted against the reform of the Judicial Branch and asked “Where are they, where are the senators who were going to listen to us?”
Another large group settled in the outer courtyard to unfurl a long tricolor flag and wave it among themselves to celebrate that they had invaded the Senate.
Hundreds of protesters entered the plenary session to stop the discussion’s development and delay the legislative process.
The demand was constant. No to the reform of the Judicial Branch, because they consider it harmful to Mexicans; it will not combat the structural problems of the Judicial Branch and will subject justice to electoral bets, thereby destroying the judicial career and undermining the administration of justice.
They achieved their objective of delaying the discussion of the reform to the Judicial Branch because it was 4:19 p.m. when they broke through the bars of the Senate headquarters and climbed the main steps to enter the building, to force the suspension of the session and force the plenary to move to the old house in Xicoténcatl, where the discussion was resumed at 7 p.m.
When they found out that the session was going to be held in Xicoténcatl, they began to leave the plenary hall and completely withdraw from the premises, to move to the other headquarters, so they left groups in their path to close reform, Balderas, Juárez and Lázaro Cárdenas, where hundreds of police waited for them to prevent their passage.
“There was an attempted coup that sought to undermine the exercise of legislative power, thus affecting the democratic institutions of the Mexican State, a situation that cannot be tolerated in any way by any of the members of this plenary session,” Gerardo Fernández stated upon resuming the Senate session.
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