out of Mexico where the Judiciary is to undergo a controversial overhaul judges will now be elected by popular vote final approval in Mexico's Senate came after protesters stormed the building to shut down the debate critics worry that the reform will threaten judicial Independence and the country's democracy by politicizing the Judiciary but outgoing Mexican president Andes Manuel Lopez orador claims the reforms are set an example for the world so let's get more on this from journalist Andalucia canol soloff in Mexico City Welcome to DW Andalucia um this will be part of the legacy of the outgoing president Manuel Lopez operador what do you think he's trying to achieve with this well earlier this year he put forth a series of reforms of which this one was the most controversial one but I think what it does do largely while they do deny it the party in power his party Morena is it does consolidate the power of Moreno um they did have a landslide uh in the elections Also earlier this year and of course uh cloudia Shin bam who will be the country's first female president who is uh taking power on October 1st will continue with his legacy um but basically uh as a populist president he has always focused on saying that he believes that the people should have more power in Mexico and be able to determine uh things like here we see who can be the federal judges um and he refers to what he goes the bublo which refers to the people and thinks that this is a way to eliminate corruption so a lot of his popularity is based on saying that he is doing things for the people and eliminating corruption which is not really the case with this reform but that is what he has made it seem that it is about okay we we'll come to that but this concerns all judges right up to the Supreme Court uh will be voted on um uh by a popular vote so does that mean anyone will be allowed to run for election as a judge no not anyone the person does have had to go to law school which in Mexico is an undergrad degree and they have to have at least an eight out of 10 of their grades but it does uh make it much wider of basically anyone who went to law school and did all right at law school can be chosen um which before they needed to have um take many exams be approved by superiors it had uh passed through many different filters that were based on all the preparation um and studies that and experience that these judges and magistrates had and now it'll be much more like a popular vote contest um we where human rights groups and uh also opposition and many people have and lawyers as well as the people that are currently in the tribunal have said that that is where there can be actually more corruption and that the political parties will now have more influence in this election of who will be chosen but it it's hard to fault the logic though isn't it what why not um have a democratically uh elected uh bench why not have uh the transparency of democracy right that is what uh Morena and their Defenders and even law students Etc are saying why should the people not be allowed to choose who uh is representing them in the judicial sphere which is so important here in Mexico where there's so much impunity um and really a said high level of uh criminal activity um so then the the reason is that logistically actually it's incredibly difficult this will be over 1,600 uh judges that will come up for elections and how and that's one number others are saying that it will actually be many thousands more because it will also be decided that way on a state level um so therefore how can uh every citizen that goes to vote be fully prepared to know how are they going to vote for these 1,600 50 or even more judges how are they going to be able to uh read through you know all of their experience and also who is financing it um and there it's very complicated and there's I was just reading about how this did happen in Bolivia and that they uh actually were not able to successfully choose all of the judges that were supposed to be chosen by popular vote because of all the complications in the logistics all right thanks for talking us through that and Lucia journalist Anda Lucia canol solof in Mexico City thank you thanks for having me on