Senate President Considers Government Protection for Judicial Candidates
The news comes just days after President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the list of eligible candidates for the judicial elections will be published on Dec. 15
Read moreTag Archives: electoral process
Sheinbaum Supports Vote-by-Vote Recount
Sheinbaum announced her support of rival presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez’s demands that the National Electoral Institute recount the nation’s ballot boxes
Read moreViolence Against Politicians Surges Ahead of Mexico’s Electoral Season
A total of fourteen individuals involved in the electoral process have been murdered within the first two months on 2024
Read moreOpposition Announces Rules for its Presidential Candidate Selection
Mexico’s opposition alliance the Va por México coalition announced the selection process for its presidential candidate in the 2024 elections, as well as the creation of the citizen-led Broad Front for Mexico
Read moreJucopo Publishes Proposal to Resolve INAI’s Ongoing Backlog
A proposed extraordinary session of the Mexican Senate to appoint new commissioners to the National Institute of Transparency could be the make-or-break factor in resolving the institute’s months-long case backlog
Read moreLuck of the Draw Supposedly Reigns Supreme at the New INE
It’s the influence that the INE’s new ranks may have on the institute’s vitally autonomous and democratic elections in Mexico that’s causing much concern
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 moreOAS Emphasizes INE’s Importance to Mexican Democracy in New Report
By KELIN DILLON According to a new 214-page report on Mexico’s June 2021 national and local electoral processes prepared by the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE) – which is controversially facing potential closure under proposed electoral reforms – “facilitated the holding of the largest elections in the history of Mexico,” a
Read moreLópez Obrador Floats Potential Pivot to ‘Plan B’ Electoral Reform
By KELIN DILLON Following the fallout from Sunday, Nov. 13’s March for Democracy in Mexico City, which saw hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens show up in support of the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) against the constitutional electoral reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), López Obrador has now shifted his approach accordingly and
Read moreElection Reform Would Benefit AMLO, Abolish Plurality
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) so-called electoral reform bill, which he announced during his Thursday, April 28, press conference at the National Palace and sent to Congress for approval that same day, has one purpose and one purpose only: to further consolidate power in his dictatorial hands and to essentially eradicate any political opposition
Read more