Ricardo Monreal, leader of the Morena majority bloc in the Senate, criticized Mejía Berdeja’s resignation from his post and his subsequent defection to the PT as its official gubernatorial candidate in Coahuila
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The ruling party, the leftist National Regeneration Movement of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is looking to wrest away control of EdoMex from the Institutional Revolutionary Party
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Over the weekend, Morena governors met in a room inside the SeGob building in downtown Mexico City, in which the party’s leader, Mario Delgado, asked them to strengthen support for Morena presidential candidates in their respective states
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AMLO came to Sheinbaum’s defense during his daily morning press conference, claiming the “vultures are circling” around the Mexico City mayor in the wake of Saturday’s tragic accident
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In the fray, seven other inmates were killed by the group that organized the escape
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, Dec. 14, named Sergio Céspedes Peregrina as the new substitute governor of the central state of Puebla. Céspedes Peregrina replaces Miguel Barbosa, who died suddenly on Tuesday, Dec. 13, just one day before he was due to present his fourth annual State of the State Address. Céspedes Peregrina
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial ‘plan b’ electoral reform may have only passed through the Chamber of Deputies due to added provisions requested by the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) allies the Green Party (PVEM) and the Labor Party (PT), the reform’s senatorial debate during the Mexican Senate’s Monday, Dec. 12, session saw some
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new 214-page report on Mexico’s June 2021 national and local electoral processes prepared by the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE) – which is controversially facing potential closure under proposed electoral reforms – “facilitated the holding of the largest elections in the history of Mexico,” a
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mauricio Tabe, mayor of Mexico City’s Miguel Hidalgo municipality and member of the conservative opposition party National Action Party (PAN), denounced Mexico’s state-run Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) on Twitter early Wednesday, Nov. 30, claiming that the CFE had used false claims of outstanding bills to justify the power cut. Tabe said that all electric bills for the
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By KELIN DILLON Just one day after the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, march in Mexico City in support of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has seemingly rescinded on its previous promise to work with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to pass a controversial constitutional electoral reform, and is now publicly proclaiming its
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