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Mexico: López Obrador’s First Year
Relations with the Judiciary
The Federal Public Servants’ Remunerations Law led to thousands of appeals by bureaucrats, which in turn produced the first significant conflict of the new administration, pitting López Obrador and Morena against the supreme court. Indeed, tensions with the judiciary emerged even before López Obrador was sworn into office, when Justice Alberto Perez Dayan’s suspended application of the law on the basis that the constitution says that supreme court justices and other judges may not have salary cuts during their term of office. As a result, the supreme court in early December 2018 instructed all lower courts to suspend application of the law as it first had to analyse its constitutionality.
- A dominant start
- Opening gambit
- Austerity against corruption
- Relations with the Judiciary
- Public consultations
- Presidential recall
- Orthodox or heterodox?
- Relations with business
- Budgets
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Champion of the poor
- Focus on wellbeing
- Education
- Youth programmes
- Health
- Rural sector and indigenous population
- All change, but no change
- Few changes
- No improvement
- Curbing abuses
- Low priority
- Non-intervention
- Relations with the United States
- Outlook