On Tuesday, an attempt to reach an agreement failed again, but neither the law opponents obtained the required eight votes out of 11, nor the defenders got past the four who wish to maintain it.

Therefore, Judge Luis María Aguilar, a speaker of the proposal to eliminate it, requested a new time to analyze the arguments by his colleagues, modify his project, or maintain it.

The four defenders’ arguments for that precautionary measure are solid because they are based on the Constitution, as Minister Margarita Ríos warned.

According to Rios, the Constitution is the most important thing because it is the result of all social understandings, the maximum pact of social harmony, and the rules under which the Mexican nation, the society itself, stated that it wanted to live.

The Government defends maintaining the PPO because eliminating it would increase the possibility of corruption within the Judiciary as has been observed with the release of inmates with a long criminal record and very strong evidence of guilt due to alleged or inconsequential judicial failures.

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