Mexico plans to elect supreme court judges

Mexico’s president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed to press ahead with her party’s controversial plans to overhaul the judiciary by directly electing top judges, in comments that hit the peso late on Monday.

In her first news conference since her landslide win, Sheinbaum said discussion of the judicial reform would begin immediately, with a view to approving it in the first months of the new legislature, which convenes in September.

“There should be a broad discussion in these months so people get to know it,” she said at the National Palace after a lunch with outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, her political mentor.

Only one country, socialist Bolivia, currently elects supreme court judges, according to the Federal Judicial Center.