By MARK LORENZANA Amid the electoral reform spearheaded by deputies from the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Mexican President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), which seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), the Mexican Human Rights Commission (CDNH) has labeled the INE as a “body that sabotages the will of the people,” and has claimed that “for years it
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) on Tuesday, Oct. 25, began the legislative process for the electoral reform that seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which would be replaced by another smaller body whose councilors would be elected by popular vote at the polls. The proposal seeks
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By KELIN DILLON After repeated contention between Mexico’s autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) and the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), which resulted in the National Regeneration Movement-led (Morena) Chamber of Deputies attempting to slash the INE’s budget by 5 billion pesos amid the country’s mandate revocation controversy, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) – Mexico’s highest court
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After the dismal turnout of barely 18 percent of eligible voters for his highly publicized revocation of mandate referendum the day before, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, April 11, admitted that he had received less than half the votes supporting his remainder in power than he had during his 2018
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Only 16 to 17 million Mexicans — about 17 to 18 percent of eligible voters — participated in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted revocation of mandate referendum on Sunday, April 10, according to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) preliminary figures, representing less than half the required turnout required for the referendum to be binding. And
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For those who have not been following the upcoming Revocation of Mandate Referendum — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) key initiatives, allegedly intended to allow the Mexican people to vote to end his six-year term early, but claimed by critics to set a precedence for the extension of his term in
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By KELIN DILLON Just more than a week after Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) opened an investigation into six councilors of the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) on Dec. 24 for their role in postponing the proposed revocation mandate, INE President Lorenzo Córdova requested the FGR to close the investigation, claiming it was based on “clearly nonexistent alleged
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, passed a 2022 Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) that cut the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) annual budget by almost 5 billion pesos, INE President Lorenzo Córdova announced that the institution is prepared to take its case to court to defend its right to sufficient resources to
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The integration of all the federal deputies of Mexico’s Green Party (PVEM) into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, with the subsequent disappearance of the party as a whole, would, if it were to come to pass (and it very well might), constitute the biggest fraud against the nation’s electorate
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was bad enough that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted public consulta (referendum) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to decide whether to prosecute his predecessors for their alleged misdeeds was a total disaster in terms of turnout (early estimates put eligible voter participation at between 7.07 and 7.74 percent; the final count was 7.11 percent),
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