Tag Archives: Mandate Recall

AMLO: If INE Won’t Hold Referendum, General Public Can Do the Job

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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AMLO’s Revocation of Mandate Referendum May Not Happen

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted mandate revocation referendum — which the president has promoted as a means to reconfirm his solid popularity among his faithful followers — may never come to pass. As of Monday, Dec. 6, just 19 days before the deadline for collecting the necessary signatures to carry out

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