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AMLO Administration Proposes 4.4 Billion Peso Budget Slash to the INE

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By KELIN DILLON After years of threatening to reduce the efficacy of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration and National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – acting under López Obrador’s Fourth Transformation (4T) campaign promise – finally attempted to make good on its promise, proposing to slash the INE’s requested budget for 2023 by 4.475

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Opposition Bloc against AMLO’s Electoral Reform Grows

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By MARK LORENZANA The contentious electoral reform spearheaded by deputies from the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has further divided the country, and two groups have emerged thus far: those who have called for a complete transformation — or even scrapping — of the National Electoral Institute (INE), and those who are

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Scrapping of Electoral Institute a Threat to Democracy, Says Majority of Mexicans

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By MARK LORENZANA Only 13 percent of Mexicans believe that the National Electoral Institute (INE) should be eliminated, 31 percent support some sort of electoral reform and 53 percent think that the INE has been doing a good job so far, according to a telephone survey conducted by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma from Wednesday, Oct. 26, to Saturday, Oct. 29.

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Mexican Human Rights Commission Attacks National Electoral Institute

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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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Morena Aims to Eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute

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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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Council of Europe Condemns AMLO’s Electoral Reform

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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 24, the Venice Commission – an advisory board on constitutional matters for international human rights organization the Council of Europe – published an opinion condemning Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) plans to reform Mexico’s electoral laws, a stance taken following the organization’s review of the situation at the request of the Mexican

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Augusto López Announces PRIMor Legislative Alliance

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By KELIN DILLON On Thursday, Oct. 13, Mexican Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López announced that the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party and its former rival the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI) have formed a legislative alliance – known as PRIMor – to push electoral reforms and Morena’s controversial electricity reforms through Mexico’s legislative body. The news comes just

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Civil Groups Launch Opposition Alliance Unid@s por México

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By MARK LORENZANA Civil society organizations on Wednesday, Oct. 12, launched a new alliance, Unid@s por México, which aims to unite members of the different opposition parties and field a single candidate in the upcoming 2024 presidential elections to go against the administration standard bearer of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena). The six civil groups that make

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Failed Arbitration with Canada Cost CFE $85 Million

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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) lost an international arbitration case last year against Canada’s ATCO Ltd and had to pay compensation of more than $85 million, according to three people familiar with the matter. Although the case involved the construction of a gas pipeline that had been contracted by the previous administration, it shows the type

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Guerrero Mayor Gunned Down with 17 Others

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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Conrado Mendoza Almeda, the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan in Mexico’s coastal state of Guerrero, and 17 other people were killed late Wednesday, Oct. 5, in an armed attack on the town’s municipal palace. The town is located in the state’s extremely violent Tierra Caliente region, currently under a turf war between opposing drug cartel groups. Also

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