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By KELIN DILLON

Following the Mexican peso’s dramatic fall caused by Sunday, June 2’s election results, Mexico’s President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum affirmed that there is no clear timeline for implementing her predecessor President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial planned changes to the Mexican Constitution. 

The National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and its allies newly-won supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies and Mexican Senate caused international concern about Mexico’s economic future due to Morena’s ability to pass through constitutional reforms without pushback, making the peso fall in turn.

However, Sheinbaum attempted to stifle public fears on Thursday, June 6, saying that AMLO’s proposals require additional review. 

“The reform process has not yet been defined,” said Sheinbaum. “My position is that a dialogue has to be opened, the proposal has to be evaluated and, in due course, approved, but the proposal has to be well explained so that the public knows it. people of Mexico and that it can be opened, as parliament normally does, through an open parliament.”

Likewise, Sheinbaum confirmed to workers from the judiciary branch that their jobs remain safe in the face of potential reforms.

“We will be able to talk about it at the time. It will not affect anyone and my opinion is that a process has to be opened so that the reform is well known,” concluded the president-elect.