Supreme Court Suspends Plan B Provisions ahead of State Elections
Plan B’s contentious new propaganda previsions would allow Mexico’s politicians and electoral candidates to express political opinion without penalty
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Congress Passes Bill to Fine, Imprison Those Who Insult AMLO
A similar law that passed in 1917 does already exist on the books in Mexico, but it only allows for much lower fines and has been seldom enforced in recent decades
Read moreProposed Reforms Put FAA Airspace Evaluation on Pause
The controversial cabotage provisions of AMLO’s proposed reforms will theoretically only be utilized under specific and controlled conditions
Read morePlan B Could Cause Nationwide Electoral Collapse, Says INE
What Morena wants is for public servants to be able to broadcast propaganda and to contract advertising with no electoral body
Read moreChamber of Deputies Heeds Electoral Court, Delays INE Election
According to Jucopo president and the National Regeneration Movement’s parliamentary coordinator Ignacio Mier, the INE electoral process will not be resolved until on or after Feb. 1
Read moreAMLO Threatens to Veto His Own Plan B
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Dec. 15, threatened to veto his own Plan B initiative to essentially eradicate the National Electoral Institute (INE) — which just had passed in the Senate one day earlier — unless the clauses giving eternal existence to his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s minority allies are eliminated.
Read moreMexican Electoral Democracy Dims as ‘Plan B’ Reaches Senate Approval
By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “Plan B” electoral reform to Mexico’s secondary laws passed through the Mexican Senate on Wednesday, Dec. 14, with 63 votes in favor and 53 votes against, setting the stage for López Obrador to follow through on his long-term intentions to prune back the powers of the country’s autonomous electoral
Read moreSenate Prunes Morena’s ‘Plan B’ Reform as Opposition Cries Foul
By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial ‘plan b’ electoral reform may have only passed through the Chamber of Deputies due to added provisions requested by the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) allies the Green Party (PVEM) and the Labor Party (PT), the reform’s senatorial debate during the Mexican Senate’s Monday, Dec. 12, session saw some
Read moreMexican Senate ‘Hones’ AMLO’s Plan B to Decimate Electoral Agency
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Senate over the weekend chiseled away several clauses of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed Plan B to decimate the country’s most important electoral agency (and with it, weaken an already-strained national democratic process) that it considered possibly unconstitutional. The newly revised Plan B — which AMLO devised to get around the fact that
Read moreThe Mexican Senate’s Hour of Truth
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Mexico’s Senate has in its hands the future of Mexican democracy. Will it allow the nation to suffer the greater damage caused by the electoral legislation that was sent by the Chamber of Deputies? Or will it, in this crucial hour, assume its historic duty to represent the interests and will of the Mexican people? Maybe
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