The reform, which would see federal judges elected by popular vote, should be enacted on Sunday, the Mexican president says.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said the judicial reform package that he championed should be enacted on September 15, after a majority of state legislatures approved the overhaul.
The announcement on Thursday came just hours after lawmakers in the country’s Senate approved the bill, which would see federal judges elected by popular vote, among other changes.
The reform, which Lopez Obrador sought to enact before he leaves office at the end of the month, had previously passed in the lower chamber of Mexico’s legislature, known as the the Chamber of Deputies.
Lopez Obrador’s Morena party has a supermajority in that chamber and is just one seat shy of a supermajority in the Senate.
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