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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Daniel Rook

Mexico President Enacts Contested Law To Elect All Judges

Demonstrators are seen inside Mexico's Senate after storming the building on September 10 to disrupt a debate on controversial judicial reforms (Credit: AFP)

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Sunday signed into law controversial judicial reforms making Mexico the world's only country to elect all its judges by popular vote.

The outgoing leftist championed the constitutional changes that he says are needed to clean up a "rotten" judiciary serving the interests of the political and economic elite.

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