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Mexico’s Lower House Approves Reform of Rights Protection Law
Mexico’s lower house of Congress approved in general terms the government proposal to reform the country’s rights protection law, which seeks to sharply reduce the number of protracted legal proceedings through the use of endless legal injunctions.
Cd. of Mexico.- To include the proposal of the General Coordinator of Presidential Policy, Arturo Zaldívar, the majority in the Chamber of Deputies will seek to amend again the transitional article of the amendment to the Amparo Law in matters of retroactivity. The new wording that is expected to be proposed during the discussion in particular "fraction" the retroactivity, which would allow the judge to apply it whenever he wishes.
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Deputies approved in committees the amendment to the Amparo Act, despite warnings from experts during hearings on the risks.
The fronts are multiplied for the organizations that seek to keep the remedy of amparo intact, the tool with which the citizenry combats the abuses of the authorities. Claudia Sheinbaum’s executive promotes a legal reform that disrupts this instrument in numerous points and that has already passed, with some modifications, the approval of the Senate. The ball is now in the Chamber of Deputies, which plans to submit the reform to a vote of the pl…
The warnings were clear, the voices expert, forceful... but they were not heard. Of the 45 opinions in the public hearings on the reform of the Amparo Law, the majority opposed. Yet, the ruling party imposed its will.
After an intense session, the Lower House approved with 345 votes the controversial initiative that prohibits suspensions with general effects. By: Roberto Mendoza This Tuesday afternoon the House of Deputies plenary generally approved the minute that reforms the Amparo Law with 345 votes in favor, 131 against and 3 abstentions, including former Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero. The vote took place after a long discussion where the changes that had…
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