### PAN Urges Opposition to ‘Stay United’ to Halt Judicial Reform in Senate
María Guadalupe Murguía Gutiérrez, the coordinator of the National Action Party (PAN) in the Senate, called on opposition legislators on September 2, 2024, to “remain firm” and avoid giving “even a single vote” to the so-called “fourth transformation,” aimed at halting the judicial reform being pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Through a post on the social media platform X, the Querétaro politician made a “patriotic” appeal to all opposition senators. She emphasized that the official plan, referred to as “Plan C,” represents “the death of democracy.”
“I make an urgent, patriotic call to all opposition senators. No matter what the official bulldozer approves in the Chamber of Deputies, we have the votes to block the judicial reform. Let’s stay united and consistent. We owe it to our voters. If we stand firm, we will prevent the death of Mexican democracy. We have a date with history. Let’s be up to the task,” wrote Murguía Gutiérrez.
#### Who is María Guadalupe Murguía Gutiérrez?
María Guadalupe Murguía Gutiérrez, 68, was born in Mexico City on December 17, 1955. She is a lawyer who graduated from the Escuela Libre de Derecho and practiced privately from that year until 1994. Between 1990 and 1991, she was a labor law teacher, and from 1991 to 1992, she taught Obligations Law courses. She has been a member of the Mexican Bar Association in Querétaro since 1997.
Her first public office was as the head of the State Tax Attorney’s Office of Querétaro (1994-1995). She then served as the head of the Querétaro No. 5 Trust from 1996 to 1997.
In 1997, she was appointed Secretary-General of the Municipality of Querétaro under Mayor Francisco Garrido Patrón. In 1998, Governor Ignacio Loyola Vera appointed her Secretary-General at the state level.
In 2001, she became head of the Federal Liaison Unit in the Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB) under President Vicente Fox. In 2003, she served as Secretary of Education for the Querétaro Government under Governor Garrido Patrón.
Murguía Gutiérrez sought the PAN candidacy for mayor of Querétaro twice. She stepped down from her position as Secretary of Education on August 26, 2005, and again on March 17, 2009, to pursue this goal, but the candidacy first went to Manuel González Valle and later to Francisco Domínguez Servién.
From 2010 to 2011, she was Director of Marine Science and Technology in the federal Ministry of Public Education (SEP), and from 2011 to 2012, she was the General Director of the College of Bachelors.
In 2013, she was elected councilor of the Municipality of Querétaro, and in 2015 she became a proportional representation federal deputy in the LXIII Legislature. She served as Secretary of the Constitutional Points Commission and member of the Public Education and Government Commissions.
On September 1, 2016, she assumed the role of Vice President of the Board of Directors in the Chamber of Deputies, later becoming its President on March 1, 2017, until September 7, 2017.
She served as a senator for Querétaro from September 1, 2018, until September 10, 2021, when she took an indefinite leave to become General Secretary of the Government of Querétaro under Governor Mauricio Kuri González.
#### Additional News on Judicial Reforms in Mexico
**Judicial Workers Join Strike Against Reforms**
On September 2, 2024, workers from the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) joined a strike protesting against the proposed judicial reforms. The workers have rejected the government’s request to break the strike.
**Judiciary Alert: Judicial Reform Violates T-MEC Commitments**
The Federal Judiciary Council (JUFED) has warned Congress that the current judicial reform proposal violates commitments made under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (T-MEC). This adds further controversy and international scrutiny to the proposed changes.
For further updates on this developing story, visit TJGringo.com.