AMLO Announces Sweeping Constitutional Reforms
However, López Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement does not have sufficient votes between itself and its allies to pass the proposed 20 constitutional changes into law
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When a President Commends an Incitement to Violence
Veracruz Governor Cuitláhuac García’s rally against Mexico’s Supreme Court included distasteful displays against Supreme Court Chief Justice Norma Piña, actions later applauded by López Obrador
Read moreAMLO Goes for the Judiciary’s Jugular as Plan B Payback
López Obrador’s outrage against the Supreme Court justice’s invalidation of his Plan B electoral reform has put a new enemy in his sights: the Supreme Court itself
Read morePlan B’s Invalidation Prompts AMLO to Seek Plan C Electoral Reform
Following the Mexican Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the first part of López Obrador’s Plan B electoral reform due to violations of the legislative process, López Obrador announced another sweeping electoral reform — known as Plan C — to the public
Read moreSupreme Court Rules Plan B Electoral Reform Invalid
While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pivoted from his defunct constitutional electoral reform to change some of Mexico’s basic electoral laws, purported violations of the legislative process during Plan B’s passage has put the reform’s constitutionality in question at the Supreme Court
Read moreLegislative Violations Put Plan B’s Future in Jeopardy at the Supreme Court
Mexican Supreme Court Justice Alberto Pérez Dayán’s newly released analysis of the Plan B electoral reforms raise concerns surrounding violations of Mexico’s legislative process
Read moreMexico’s Democracy Matters — to Mexico and the US
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreElectoral Experts Warn Plan B Will Make Voting a ‘Nightmare’
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
Read moreINE’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 moreThousands Show Up at Zócalo to Defend INE
Protesters also left flowers at the entrance of the SCJN, as a symbol of the confidence they have in the justices
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