# Mexico enacts popular election of judges as Sheinbaum’s coalition takes Congress

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 15 September 2024 the judicial-election constitutional amendment was published. [Sheinbaum](/people/claudia-sheinbaum) was president-elect; her Morena coalition had just taken the Chamber. AMLO sent the bill. She campaigned on Plan C and later implemented the 2025 vote.

## Context

The 2 June 2024 landslide sat as parent. Neighbouring 1 June 2025 judicial election is a child. She did not sit as every senator on 11 September.

Oath 1 October 2024 is later. Judicial election 1 June 2025 is the implementation child.

The President of Mexico heads the federal executive, promulgates laws Congress sends, and commands the armed forces. She does not write an INE tally, a SCJN judgment, a US tariff schedule, or a cartel killing by herself. Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s earlier statutes are not her later decrees unless she re-enacted them. A disappearance print is not a unique due-process coefficient.

## Evidence and sources

DOF carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [judicial independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion): a completed constitutional switch from appointment to popular election of the federal bench.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 15 September 2024 publication of the judicial-election amendment, independently reported against the new supermajority.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Her coalition voted it. She had campaigned on Plan C and later owned the 2025 implementation as president.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Mexico enacts popular election of judges as Sheinbaum’s coalition takes Congress, not a later speech about Mexico enacts popular election of judges as Sheinbaum’s coalition takes Congress.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Mexico enacts popular election of judges as Sheinbaum’s coalition takes Congress on 2024-09-15 is not a licence to treat every later DOF communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Mexico enacts popular election of judges as Sheinbaum’s coalition takes Congress into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to AMLO sent the bill. Her coalition voted it. She had campaigned on Plan C and later owned the 2025 implementation as president. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Claudia Sheinbaum: https://factrail.ai/people/claudia-sheinbaum

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-electoral-authority-ratifies-ruling-coalitions-lower-house-supermajority-2024-08-23/
- https://www.dof.gob.mx/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mx-judicial-reform-2024