Students promoted an injunction against the consultation on the construction of New Mexico airport

A group of students of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) is promoting an amparo to cancel the request of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to cancel the work of New Mexico City Airport (NAICM).

Four ITAM students, according to the portal of information Animal Policyor, they badured that the amparo had been treated last October, when it had been handed over to the Fifth District Court in administrative matters of the Mexican capital, and although it was refused at the beginning, the request was admitted later and will give place "end of April".

The winning proposal is a project of redevelopment and construction of an airport in the current military area of ​​Santa Lucía, north of Mexico City, where two tracks are already used by the Mexican army, a plan that corresponds to another of López Obrador's campaign proposals: the austerity of the government.

But the proposal of the current Mexican president has aroused strong criticism. In December, eUS research center Miter, which specializes in aeronautical navigation, criticized Lopez Obrador's plan to cancel Texcoco airport to operate simultaneously the Mexico City International Airport and the Santa Lucia Military Base, on the pretext that this would bring unnecessary complexity.

One of the arguments of the students of Law of ITAM's career in his application for protection is that the popular consultation organized by the government of López Obrador It was not conducted in accordance with the Constitution, although it had a legal effect: that of suspending the work..

The argument that supports the allegation of amparo is that once the new government – which took power on December 1 – took control of the decisions of the new airport, it is precisely the consultation that motivated the suspension of the work, and not the technical arguments..

The students indicated in their application that Javier Jiménez Espriú, Secretary of Communications and Transport, had declared before the Mexican Senate that the airport it was economically unfeasible and there were reasons of a technical nature that forced the new government to cancel the operation. However, these are not the same reasons as those used legally to suspend work.

This is not the first time that these students are filing for protection in order to avoid the airport cancellation. But in this first request the judge dismissed the amparo because López Obrador was still elected president, not in officeand you could not recognize any authority to make decisions.

At that time, the judge's decision also included a criticism of the consultation: he ensured that the investigation could have no legal consequence and "even less" a binding effect, the exercise had no "constitutional or legally recognized power".

But the subsequent trial was admitted because López Obrador, already president of Mexico, is a figure who has the power to conduct the consultation, still within the constitutional frameworks of the law.

On April 24, according to Political animal, the time allowed for both parties to present their evidence ends. Then, the court will convene a hearing in which it will decide whether the amparo has sufficient arguments to prosecute whether or not.