Overview

• The legislative initiative seeks to narrow the alcance of interés legítimo, reducing who can bring public-interest challenges to laws and government acts.
• It proposes restricting suspensions with general effects and broadening reasons to deny them, which would confine precautionary relief to the individual complainant.
• Rights advocates say the changes would undercut tools relied on by madres buscadoras, environmental defenders and human-rights groups to avert irreparable harm.
• Analysts point to the 2011–2013 expansion of amparo and past rulings, including tribunal suspensions that paused the 2017 Ley de Seguridad Interior, to argue broad measures protect the public.
• Commentary links the proposal to a 2024 narrowing of suspensions and notes officials contend amparos obstruct governance, while opponents cite Articles 103 and 107 and Inter-American standards to argue it threatens legal certainty.