Plan B was the president’s way of circumventing the non-passage of a previous proposal to dispense with the INE altogether and put control and supervision of all elections under his office
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Jacobo was forced to step down from his post upon the publication of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s contentious Plan B electoral law
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According to the municipalities, certain reforms in the electoral law violate their budgetary autonomy, specifically by “limiting social communication spending to 0.1 percent.”
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Now, as the INE and the TEPJF face erosion under the new Plan B electoral reform, Mexico’s Supreme Court has a unique historic opportunity to safeguard, with the Constitution well in hand, the integrity of those key arbitrators
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The panel also determined that while Plan B would theoretically represent a savings of 3.5 billion pesos, it does not detail how these savings would be accomplished nor take into account the costs of transforming the country’s current electoral bodies
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Jacobo has served as secretary general of the INE for 14 years, and would have served for another three years, until 2026, if not for the passage of the Plan B law
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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AMLO’s Plan B
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The Path of Democracy in Mexico under AMLO
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The INE, which was crucial in eliminating one-party rule and moving Mexico toward real democracy two decades ago, has been in López Obrador’s crosshairs since he took office in December 2018
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