Experts say that the sovereignty reforms proposed by Sheinbaum are unnecessary and useless

Constitutionalists considered that the initiative to reform articles 40 and 19 of the Constitution that President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo sent this Thursday to expressly prohibit any attempt at foreign intervention is unnecessary and of little use.

In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, the experts stated that national sovereignty does not need to be reaffirmed in the Magna Carta every time the government feels threatened, as they indicated that this is already fully guaranteed in the current text and in international law.

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Francisco Burgoa, an academic at UNAM, considered that these types of changes not only trivialize the constitutional text, but also turn it into an instrument of political propaganda rather than a true social pact.

“These reforms are unnecessary and politically artificial. National sovereignty does not need to be reaffirmed in the Constitution every time the government feels threatened, as it is already fully guaranteed in the current text and in international law,” he stressed.

"These types of changes not only trivialize the constitutional text, but also turn it into an instrument of political propaganda rather than a true social pact," he insisted.

He considered that the toughening of penalties is a matter of criminal policy that should be addressed in the Federal Penal Code and not through constitutional reforms, since the purpose of the Magna Carta is not to regulate specific crimes, but to establish the fundamental principles of the legal system.

“Legislating in this way opens the door to a distortion of constitutionalism. If every current concern requires a constitutional reform, will the Constitution also have to be amended every time someone seeks to reaffirm the protection of human rights, the separation of powers or any other principle?” he said.

It will not have any effectiveness

José María Soberanes Díez, a contributor to El Gran Diario de México and a researcher at the Universidad Panamericana (UP), said that this will not have any effect and “is useless.”

Declaring that this is “a symbolic value” for Mexico, the doctor of law also commented that it is “rhetoric” from the government of President Sheinbaum Pardo, and saying that our country is sovereign, that “is already the case and has been for more than 200 years.”

"It will not have any effect and it is totally unnecessary. It is as if we put in the Constitution: 'Every night the sun will set'. It is a bit useless. It is rhetoric, very nice rhetoric, but rhetoric at the end of the day," he said.

"I think it is pointless to put this in the Constitution. I understand the message it wants to send: 'He will not give in, he will not yield,'" the specialist added.

He exemplified that, if an American sailor is given the order to enter Mexico by a drug lord, he will restrain himself because the Constitution says that he will be given a severe penalty: "Are you going to disobey your superior and your supreme commander? He will say: 'No, we can't do it because the Mexican Constitution says that they will give me the most severe penalty and I will have preventive detention.' They parachute in where they will be shot, how scared will it be that the Mexican Constitution says that," he said ironically.

He added that politically it is viable because it will be approved due to the qualified majority in Congress, but nothing more.