translated from Spanish: IACHR questions Zaldívar’s mandate extension at SCJN

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed concern about the adoption in the Mexican Senate of an article transitional to the Organic Law of the Judiciary that would extend the mandates of the current President of the Supreme Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and the councillors of the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF).
The IACHR indicates that such action exceeds the constitutional term of these charges and so called on Mexico to “ensure that the duration of the mandates of management positions of the SCJN and CJF meet the constitutional deadlines established in safeguarding its independence in accordance with inter-American standards”, according to a post on its Twitter account. 
Last week also the Mexican Bar Association (BMA) issued a position on the Decision of the Senate through a document addressed to the president of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies, the priista Dulce María Sauri Riancho.
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The BMA noted that the issue “goes into direct collision” with articles 97 and 100 of the Constitution, “which do not allow secondary legislation to extend mandates such as that intended (duration of more than four years of the President of the Court and of the Council of the Judiciary and seven years in his commission of the other Counselors of the Judiciary)”.
“Therefore, in the light of the evidence of the above, the Chamber of Deputies is requested, within the sovereign exercise of its constitutional powers, and respecting the legislative process, rejects such a decision in the light of constitutional arguments and considerations, making the Constitution that it must keep and keep prevail first and foremosts,” the document states. 
With a reservation that was never on more than 500 pages of the opinion adopted in committees, but which was added last minute and read in grandstand in less than a minute and a half, a majority of Senators headed by Morena, the PRI and the Green Party endorsed extending for two more years the presidency of Minister Arturo Zaldívar at the SCJN.
The inclusion of such a reservation was so surprising that opposition lawmakers could not even ask for the floor before it was voted on. Claims for what happened were filed once the result was announced with phrases such as a “Coup d’eer to the judiciary”.
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Original source in Spanish