Likewise, National Electoral Institute President Guadalupe Taddei announced the autonomous electoral institution aims to secure up to 1.5 billion pesos for Mexico’s upcoming judicial electios
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By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Without having dealt with him closely, without actually having been his friend, I feel a distant brotherhood with political scientist José Woldenberg, who served as the first president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Our initial trajectories were different. I belong to the generation of 1968 and I leaned toward liberalism early on. He belongs to the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a true if-the-mountain-won’t-come-to-Mohammed moment, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, Dec. 21, that should the National Electoral Institute (INE) not agree to hold his controversial mandate revocation referendum, Mexican citizens could organize the nonbinding poll on their own. “Democracy comes from the people, not from an administrative apparatus,”AMLO said during his daily morning
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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 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 It’s official. Both Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) that oversees it have now ruled definitively on Wednesday, April 28, that both Félix Salgado Macedonio (with an impressive political portfolio of legal accusations against him, running the gamut from alleged serial rapist to assumed multi-million peso embezzler to probable lackey for drug cartels)
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just as the dust is beginning to settle from last week’s approvals and denials fray of new national political parties by Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal (TEJPF), the National Electoral Institute (INE) carried out Sunday, Oct. 19, two pending elections that had been suspended due to the covid-19 pandemic in the states of Hidalgo and Coahuila. INE President-Councilor Lorenzo
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Although only one out of seven new applications for registration as a political party was accepted last Friday, Sept. 5, by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), that does not mean the quest for registration is over for those dissatisfied with the decision. The only party admitted for registration was the Solidary Encounter Party (PES). Three of the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Last of the Sauri-ans The first week of September in Mexican politics was raucous from start to finish. Here is a capsulated roundup of events: It all started on Monday, Aug. 31, with the first vote at the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for the upcoming third and last year of the current legislature. Contending for the
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