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PAN Victory in Mexico City Is Not a Given
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The political opposition in Mexico City, and particularly the conservative National Action Party (PAN), hopes to have the 2024 election in the bag. The party’s optimistic calculation is based on the overwhelming success it enjoyed in the 2021 citywide election and is reinforced by the fact that, since then, leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Read moreAMLO Blames Low Voter Turnout for Referendum on INE
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After the dismal turnout of barely 18 percent of eligible voters for his highly publicized revocation of mandate referendum the day before, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, April 11, admitted that he had received less than half the votes supporting his remainder in power than he had during his 2018
Read moreLow Turnout Mars Mexico’s Revocation of Mandate Vote
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Only 16 to 17 million Mexicans — about 17 to 18 percent of eligible voters — participated in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted revocation of mandate referendum on Sunday, April 10, according to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) preliminary figures, representing less than half the required turnout required for the referendum to be binding. And
Read moreAMLO Announces Reform to Publicly Elect Electoral Counselors
By KELIN DILLON Following an extended controversy with Mexico’s autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE), especially surrounding the upcoming mandate revocation process, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took to his daily morning press conference on Tuesday, March 29, to announce his intentions to reform Mexican legislation to grant electoral magistrates and judges their seats through a public
Read moreAMLO Accuses INE of Hiding Mandate Revocation’s Ballot Boxes
By KELIN DILLON In the midst of the ongoing controversy surrounding Mexico’s autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) holding mandate revocation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican executive took to his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, March 16, to accuse the INE of hiding the locations of the process’ ballot boxes, requesting for organization officials to “define”
Read moreAldana Wins Pemex Leadership with 70 Percent of Vote
By KELIN DILLON Following the Monday, Jan. 31, historic digital vote for the leadership of the state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Oil Workers Union (STPRM), Ricardo Aldana, the STPRM treasurer both under controversial former inion leader Carlos Romero Deschamps and in the present day, won the election in a landslide, with 70 percent of the votes. While there were 25 candidates
Read moreMexico to Hold Referendum on Prosecuting Former Presidents
By KELIN DILLON A referendum held by popular vote will take place in Mexico on Aug. 1, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with the public deciding on whether or not the country should prosecute its former heads of state for alleged criminal activity. “I take this opportunity to invite people to participate in this referendum,” said AMLO
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