Arturo Zaldivar exploded after accusation of not knowing how to tell: “Mediocre, interested, and unethical”

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation voted on April 7, 2022 on the unconstitutionality of the Electricity Reform of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the same session that was validated this Tuesday.

This unconstitutional action promoted by a group of senators against the proposal of the president of Mexico reached a total of 7 votes, so it did not obtain the qualified majority to be dismissed from the highest court.

Thus, the validity of various articles defining electricity coverage contracts, legacy contracts for basic supply, among others, was confirmed and remains in force.

However, Arturo Zaldivar, chief minister of the Supreme Court, was criticized during the most recent days for allegedly miscounting the votes, and instead of eight, needed to dismiss it, he would have counted 7 only at his convenience, which even came to the attention of the president, who asked to explain the situation.

During a press conference given by Zaldívar, also president of the Council of the Federal Judiciary, he clarified that these rumors and attacks were part of a campaign to “disqualify a judicial process that was conducted publicly, live and televised.”

He added, in this regard, that the vote was completely normal, and like the one carried out on any of the other matters handled by the Court, but differentiated votes were presented, which, after asking 7 times, were completely clarified.

“If it had been misreceived or interpreted, the minister should have said, but said nothing. The whole plenary accepted that there were not 8 votes, and not only that, we moved on to the decisive votes where the action was dismissed and they were voted unanimously,” the president minister insisted.

In this regard, he added that if they sought to harm him with these accusations, the only thing they caused was that they disrespected the intelligence of their colleagues in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

“The others are in the slime, they are absent or have no intelligence or character. Those who want to deny me, are denigrating the ministers. Now I happen to be an alchemist. No, there's the session. That's how everyone voted, clearly,” adding that she is only responsible for her opinion, because “she is no one's nanny.”

And then he also lashed out against academics, analysts and experts on the subject from both the political and judicial sides, among others, whom he pointed out for trying to “appropriate the sole meaning of the constitution.”

In addition, he insisted that his only task has been to start from the assumption that “everything that the government and the ruling party does is unconstitutional”, while those who vote against their ideals are filled with insults, qualifications, and so on.

“If they are insults, it gives them more pleasure, because they want to replace with insults what they do not have in votes,” he lashed out with visible anger, and asked them to criticize the session with ethics and honorability in order to “refer to everything that happened and not misrepresent or mutilate the facts.”

Finally, he concluded that these are “very dangerous” efforts that seek to weaken the Supreme Court, guarantor of Human Rights, and then “generate a reversal in the rights of women, minorities, sexual groups, people with disabilities, among others”.

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