She has more than enough reasons to remain cautious... and seated.

By Edna Jaime

I am not a connoisseur of protocols, much less of official ones, so I do not know for sure if Minister Norma Piña broke any of them in the commemorative ceremony of the 106th anniversary of our Constitution. I once did the same, in an event in which several people from civil society would talk with some authority, perhaps the head of the then Mexico City Government, or a group of legislators, I do not remember. When the authority or authorities arrived, I remained seated because I decided to do so, because I did not feel like obeying a protocol or a custom that makes us different from the others. And because the truth is that I was not going to pay respects to someone to whom I wanted to ask for results and say: "if you can't, resign". In that meeting there was also a photo and I came out seated. I don't think I was considered brave, but rather clueless or ignorant of the ways in which one should address a "superior" who is, at the end of the day, our employee.

I would like to assume that Minister Piña deliberately remained seated out of conviction and because she wanted to send a message: the Judiciary is equivalent to the Executive.