The panel also determined that while Plan B would theoretically represent a savings of 3.5 billion pesos, it does not detail how these savings would be accomplished nor take into account the costs of transforming the country’s current electoral bodies
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The INE, which was crucial in eliminating one-party rule and moving Mexico toward real democracy two decades ago, has been in López Obrador’s crosshairs since he took office in December 2018
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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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If the election were to be held today, De las Heras reported, 48 percent of Coahuila voters will cast their ballots for Jiménez Salinas, compared to the ruling leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s candidate the election Armando Guadiana´s 30 percent support
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The ruling party, the leftist National Regeneration Movement of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is looking to wrest away control of EdoMex from the Institutional Revolutionary Party
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By MARK LORENZANA When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) met U.S. President Joe Biden at the Oval Office of the White House on July 12 of this year, AMLO made sure to remind his U.S. counterpart that gas prices in Mexico were lower than in the United States. López Obrador even said that he had “allowed Americans to
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Each day that passes is one less until the next midterm elections in Mexico take place next year, when representatives for the local congresses, as well as the governors for the State of Mexico and the Coahuila, located in central and northern Mexico respectively, will be determined. Coahuila, a state located in the heart of
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By MARK LORENZANA Valeria Jasso bagged first place in this year’s edition of the Welcome Sessions band contest at Mexico City’s Foro Indie Rocks on Wednesday, Sept. 7. Two other bands played in the grand finale, aside from the grand-prize winner: Mexico City-based Melts, which opened the contest and bagged second place, and Ulises Dávila, a soloist from the Mexican
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By KELIN DILLON Following days of contention between members of Mexico’s Va por México electoral alliance surrounding the Party of Institutional Revolution’s (PRI) proposal to expand the influence of the Mexican Armed forces in the streets — a move made in collaboration with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the very party that Va por México was created to defeat
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By MARK LORENZANA Members of the Va Por México coalition, which consists of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), reaffirmed their alliance on Tuesday, Aug. 30, and are set to agree on fielding their chosen candidates in the upcoming 2023 local public elections and the
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