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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite extensive campaigns across Mexico’s capital aimed at gaining and maintaining control over its 32 precincts in the midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, preliminary vote counts indicate that the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost territory as a result of the polling. Morena, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as a platform to promote
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By KELIN DILLON The controversial law extending the term of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar by three years, known as the Zaldívar Law, was published into effect on Monday, June 7, just one day after the biggest elections in Mexico’s history. The amendments to the Organic Law of the Judicial Power of the
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By KELIN DILLON The Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM) found itself in hot water after it became public knowledge that the party allegedly paid dozens of influencers and celebrities to promote the PVEM on their social media accounts over the weekend, despite an electoral ban in place making it illegal to do so. The 30 online socialites were purportedly
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Survival of the Fittest
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) Consultant Mauricio Merino Huerta said Saturday, June 5, that while there may be some minor changes in Mexico’s political landscape following Sunday’s midterm elections, there will be no major changes. “There are not going to be any big surprises coming out of the vote count,” Merino Huerta told Pulse News Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite countless physical and verbal assaults, numerous alleged kidnappings and the murders of at least 90 politicians over the pre-election campaigns, Mexico held its largest national polling Sunday, June 6, with relatively little violence and minimal political snags. Polls across the country opened at 8 a.m. sharp, with an estimated 40 million eligible voters
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Mexican Elections
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By KELIN DILLON Contested Venezuelan incumbent President Juan Guaidó, who challenged Venezuela’s current President Nicolás Maduro amid the country’s decade-long economic crisis, issued a warning to the Mexican people ahead of the midterm elections, slated for Sunday, June 6, on, from his experience, how to spot ways the government could be weakening the nation’s democracy. “Against the undermining of democracy,
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