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This is on point. I'm Meghachra Bardi.

Mexico is on the path to making one of the most sweeping national reforms in the world.

It will soon be the first country to have its entire judicial branch stand for election all the way up to

the Mexican Supreme Court.

The proposal has already passed the Mexican House, and this morning, after 12 hours of debate

and interruptions by protesters,

Mexico's Senate also passed the judicial reform 86 to 41. Here's Senator Enrique Enzunza of the Moreno Party on the

Senate floor before the vote.

Botaremos for the

foundation of the power judicial.

We will vote for the refoundation of the judicial power to guarantee that

with democratic and direct effectiveness of the people,

it serves alone and equally to the cause of the rights of all Mexicans.

With the authentic independence of other powers, he continues and says,

and subject only to the mandate of the

Constitution and the laws." Well the legislation's final hurdle now is

getting it ratified at the state level where it is more than

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