Internal Mudfest Breaks Out over Plan B during INE Session
Cordova said that the passage of Plan B is a “setback of intolerance and arbitrariness, and an abuse of power to the detriment of the citizen’s democratic conquests”
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INE’s Jacobo Dismissed upon Publication of Plan B
Jacobo has served as secretary general of the INE for 14 years, and would have served for another three years, until 2026, if not for the passage of the Plan B law
Read moreMurayama: How AMLO’s Plan B Violates INE’s Autonomy
Plan B eliminates these executive boards and eliminates their five committees: executive, secretarial, federal voter registration, organization, as well as electoral training that, until today, are made up of qualified members of the National Electoral Professional Service
Read moreThe Great Green Party Horse Trade at San Lázaro
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The integration of all the federal deputies of Mexico’s Green Party (PVEM) into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, with the subsequent disappearance of the party as a whole, would, if it were to come to pass (and it very well might), constitute the biggest fraud against the nation’s electorate
Read moreMexico’s Referendum Results Keep Getting Uglier
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was bad enough that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted public consulta (referendum) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to decide whether to prosecute his predecessors for their alleged misdeeds was a total disaster in terms of turnout (early estimates put eligible voter participation at between 7.07 and 7.74 percent; the final count was 7.11 percent),
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Roberta’s Back In May 2018, then-outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson made a prediction, saying that she was not saying goodbye but rather “so long.” On Tuesday, March 23, Jacobson kept her promise and returned to Mexico, this time as U.S. President Joe Biden’s southern border affairs representative. Jacobson led a committee of U.S. officials in
Read moreRejected Would-Be Parties Will Sue
By RICARDO CASTILLO Although only one out of seven new applications for registration as a political party was accepted last Friday, Sept. 5, by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), that does not mean the quest for registration is over for those dissatisfied with the decision. The only party admitted for registration was the Solidary Encounter Party (PES). Three of the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Fake Invoicing Party Is Over Slowly but surely, Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) and the country’s fiscal attorney general are going after those who practiced what became during the past administration the most popular sport among businessmen: tax evasion. Fiscal Attorney General Carlos Romero announced his office was issuing culprits a warning salvo to straighten up their
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Alfaro’s Political Ambitions Squelched Up until last week, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro had been looking a lot like a 2024 presidential hopeful. But then all hell broke loose on his would-be candidacy. It all started with the arrest and apparent murder of a 30-year-old construction worker named Giovanni López at the hands of municipal police in Ixltahuacán
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