PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Q. ROO.- The changes planned in the reform of the Judicial Branch in Mexico would have direct consequences for the logistics sector , according to a specialist in the field.

Last Wednesday, the Chamber of Deputies, which has a qualified legislative majority of Morena, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, approved the project from the federal Executive that proposes the election by popular vote of ministers, magistrates and judges , the reduction of the Supreme Court, the creation of a judicial administration body and a Disciplinary Court.

The bill, which has sparked criticism and protests across the country, will now be sent to the Senate for discussion and approval.

These proposed changes for the Judiciary that occur at the twilight of López Obrador’s six-year term “are a latent risk for logistics,” said Héctor Romero, president of Círculo Logístico , who is also a representative of various business organizations such as the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) and the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism of the United Mexican States (Concanaco-Servytur) .

The specialist in security issues in the logistics and transportation field also said that the fact that anyone can be elected to occupy a position in the Judicial Branch is comparable to the situation that has been experienced during the López Obrador administration, in which personnel from the Navy and the Army have previously occupied public positions, both in customs and in port and airport administrations, where inexperience has translated into complications for the transportation of goods in the country.

“It is a risk, it is an irresponsibility that the current Executive is popularly betting on (…) there will be many interests involved,” said Romero, present at the 2024 edition of Top Flotillas and LOGEX , two events that have brought together executives from supplier and purchasing companies in this Caribbean resort around logistics and transportation management.

Meanwhile, according to statements made to the EFE agency by Larry Rubin, president of the American Society of Mexico (Amsoc) , American companies in Mexico have halted their investment announcements in view of the possible implications of the reform to the Judicial Branch.

In an attempt to put pressure on legislators, the justices of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) have decided to stop work until September 9.

In response to a question from T21, Héctor Romero explained that at present, judicial processes are “slow and bureaucratic” in the follow-up of his complaints in the theft of goods transported on the country’s roads or also in the case of the theft of vehicles, so the possible arrival of inexperienced personnel would aggravate this situation that afflicts the logistics and transport sector.

“We have to add, we cannot divide, and this (federal) government, I say this with the greatest respect, divided,” he said.

Héctor Romero is confident in the appointments that have been announced for the next cabinet of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo , president-elect, who will be tasked with protecting the Mexican logistics and transportation sector that has been forgotten during López Obrador’s six-year term.

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