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Student Edition: Weekly Report - 13 December 2018
MEXICO: Judges rebel against salary cuts
Both sides are at pains to deny it, but the executive and judicial branch of Mexico’s government are locked in a clash of powers just days after the investiture of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. At the root of what is swiftly developing into an embittered dispute is the ‘Ley Federal de Remuneraciones’, a new law approved by the federal congress controlled by López Obrador’s left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena). This bars any public official from earning in excess of the president’s salary. The supreme court of justice (SCJN) suspended the law on 7 December while it ponders a series of constitutional challenges filed against it, principally by judges and magistrates. This provoked a backlash from López Obrador and Morena. Their stinging criticism was rebutted by the judiciary as the discord escalated.
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