On February 5, 2024, the Federal Executive submitted to Congress 19 Bills of Amendment to the Mexican Constitution which could potentially impact several features of the institutional framework of the State, its economy and the constitutional rights of the people. These bills lack common ground and appear to be more a collection of efforts of the current administration to elevate to constitutional status certain initiatives that at the time were declared unconstitutional by Federal Courts (salary caps to governmental officers, republican austerity, preeminence of State-owned utilities over private players in the electric power industry, police duties and military control of the National guard, among others) and already operating welfare projects (financial aid to students, unemployed youth and the older population). Notwithstanding the foregoing, certain proposed amendments seek to materialize promises that the Executive has been voicing during his administration, now that the end of his tenure looms (overhaul of the judiciary, eradication of autonomous and technocratic agencies, among others). Finally, alongside these “big tickets”, other lesser changes are also being proposed to certain environmental and social rights.
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