Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum. Photo: X

By KELIN DILLON

Following her first meeting with sitting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced she would begin open parliaments and consultations on AMLO’s so-called ‘plan c’ constitutional reforms – which include a controversial overhaul of the nation’s judicial branch – before holding a vote on the matter in September.

Sheinbaum said no changes would be made to the contentious reform, which is now set to be one of the first pieces of legislation voted on under her presidency, and that the debate is only an opportunity for legislators and experts to hold an open discussion on its potential impacts.

“The dialogue will be carried out around the proposal sent to congress, that is known,” said Sheinbaum at the time.

“There should be a very broad discussion throughout the country that, for example, in the case of judicial reform, let lawyers, the law schools, the ministers themselves, the magistrates,  and obviously the workers of the judiciary, have a broad discussion in these months,” continued the president-elect.

However, Sheinbaum’s announcement about potential shifts to the country’s balance of power caused a negative reaction among foreign investors, resulting in the Mexican peso depreciating 1.8 percent against the U.S. dollar late Monday afternoon.