By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), in an effort led by the party’s Senator Ricardo Monreal, will now look to reform the country’s General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), removing all its current members in the process. “It is a very ambitious reform in electoral
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By KELIN DILLON Nine months after he became president of the Electoral Tribunal of Mexico’s Federal Judicial Branch (TEPJF), Judge José Luis Vargas was dismissed from his role by his fellow judges in the judicial body, with five out of the seven voting for his removal on Wednesday, Aug. 4, though controversy has ensued since as Vargas has refused to
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By KELIN DILLON Ignacio Mier Velazco, the in-power National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) coordinator in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, claimed the country’s opposition parties are attempting to boycott and “derail” August’s public referendum, which Morena proposed to determine whether or not Mexico’s former presidents should be prosecuted for their alleged crimes “Today we see how the rightwing parties, the National Electoral
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After Mexico’s midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) openly flirted with the idea that he could woo the once-invincible centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to his court in order to maintain a qualified majority in the country’s lower congressional Chamber of Deputies. But the PRI, whose members are often the object of
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AMLO Returns to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s historically large midterm elections, held on Sunday, June 6, have finally come to definitive results, barring a handful of cases that have necessitated recounts. More than 47.4 million people turned out for Sunday’s vote, putting the country’s citizen participation at 52.67 percent for the record-sized elections. The National Electoral Institute’s (INE) quick count of votes puts
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost its qualified majority in the Chamber of Deputies during the elections held on Sunday, June 6, curbing its ability to modify the nation’s constitution without outside help. Preliminary results announced by the National Electoral Institute (INE) on Sunday evening showed Morena projected to win 35 percent of the votes into
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican federal deputies voted Wednesday, April 28, to remove the conditional immunity afforded to Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca as an government officeholder and to proceed with his impeachment, state senators voted late Friday, April 30, to reinstate that immunity and cancel the impeachment process. The leftist National Regeneration Movement
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By KELIN DILLON National Regeneration Movement (Morena) Deputy Saúl Huerta was suspended from his post after the leftist majority party voted on the issue on Sunday, March 25, following accusations of Huerta molesting multiple underage boys. Morena’s legislative bench leader, Ignacio Mier, announced the party’s move in a tweet, and said he would be reporting the suspension to the Chamber
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