By KELIN DILLON In order to fulfill its obligations to hold a public mandate revocation consultation as ordered by Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) is expected to request 1.73 billion pesos from the Secretary of Finance in order to follow through on the requested vote. The INE had previously canceled
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) voted to postpone its public referendum on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) mandate, the Supreme Court ordered the institute to continue on with the popular vote in a ruling on Wednesday, Dec. 22. The process, which has been wrought with controversy since its inception, as a number of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) Council voted on Friday, Dec. 17, to postpone indefinitely a referendum for the nonbinding revocation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) mandate, the president’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) said that it will appeal that decision before the nation’s Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF). The revocation of mandate referendum,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday, Oct. 7, said if his brother Pío López Obrador is responsible for what he is accused of, he should be punished. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) gave the green light to the National Electoral Institute (INE) to proceed with
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), in an effort led by the party’s Senator Ricardo Monreal, will now look to reform the country’s General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), removing all its current members in the process. “It is a very ambitious reform in electoral
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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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By KELIN DILLON After controversy arose surrounding Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for governor of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza, allegedly offering cash cards to women in an attempt to buy their votes in the country’s upcoming June elections, reports have revealed that most, if not all, of Mexico’s political parties commonly engage in this practice. The use
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has already accumulated 13 complaints against him from Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for infractions relating to electoral interference, based off of his well-documented outbursts against his perceived political opponents during his daily morning press conferences. The registry kept by INE’s Electoral Contentious Technical Unit (UTCE) recorded four of the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) decided in a majority vote on Wednesday, Feb. 18, to reverse the decision made by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to prevent public servants, particularly Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from speaking publicly about Mexico’s electoral process as the nation approaches its midterm elections this June.
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