A doll with the image of the minister president Norma Piña in the concentration in the capital's zócalo, on March 18. Rodrigo Oropeza
The Federal Judiciary issued a statement on Monday in which it "categorically reproaches the manifestations of violence and hatred that occurred on March 18 in the capital's Zócalo against the minister president" Norma Piña.
Last Saturday, during the concentration promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City, a cardboard figure with the face of the judge was burned.
Shouting "Get out with Pineapple", a group of protesters set fire to a doll in an act highly criticized on social networks and also condemned by the president.
"This power is concerned about the union that the exercise of the checks and balances required by our constitutional order results in a confrontation, not only institutional, but among Mexicans," reads the statement, sent by representatives of the 11 Supreme Court ministers. National Court of Justice (SCJN), the members of the Federal Judicial Council, magistrates and federal judges.
“Violence, of any kind, is an obstacle to the fulfillment of the objectives that unite us as Mexican men and women: the safeguarding of human rights and the rule of law,” she adds and ends: “No more hate actions.
No more gender violence.
Mexico demands more from us”.
With these brief lines, the Federal Judiciary, of which Norma Piña is its highest representative, takes a position on the images that outraged López Obrador's critics last weekend.
The concentration was a new example of the power of congregation of the president, who chose the commemoration of the 85 years of the oil expropriation to show muscle.
However, the violent attitude of some of the protesters was denounced, who threw and hit the doll with the face of the judge before setting it on fire while shouting around: "It is an honor to be with Obrador."
"This type of act should not be carried out, it is not the best, I think there are ways to protest without going to those extremes," said the president on Monday, who, however, tried to minimize the claims against his followers because he , he assured, has also suffered similar attacks.
"I condemn these acts, we have to see each other as adversaries, not as enemies," he said.
Minister Norma Piña has frequently been the target of López Obrador's criticism, since she was elected president of the SCJN in January.
In these months, the president has said: "The president of the Court, to speak in silver, is there for me" or "as soon as she arrived, a wave of resolutions was unleashed in favor of alleged criminals", as pointed out on the 1st of March.
Some critics point out that the president's statements have consequences and trigger episodes of violence such as the burning of the doll.
"The president's verbal violence jumps out into the streets in the morning," denise Dresser, a political scientist, criticized on social networks.
Piña has not responded to any of López Obrador's words since his arrival at the top of the Judiciary and has not made any statements on this occasion, beyond the statement from the institution he presides over.
On Twitter, the former president of the SCJN, Minister Arturo Zaldívar, has also come out to condemn the images: “I condemn the demonstrations of hate against the Minister President Norma Piña.
Political violence is never the way.
Let us resolve our differences through dialogue, political debate and constitutional legal channels”.
The Supreme Court will soon decide on some essential issues for the Government of López Obrador, such as, for example, the electoral reform proposed by the president.
The high court will have the last word on whether the so-called plan B respects the Mexican Constitution.
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