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The defense of freedom in Mexico is, once again, in the hands of the nation’s judiciary
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Supreme Court Admits Lawsuits against Plan B
The Mexican Bishops’ Conference (CEM) also expressed its concern about López Obrador’s Plan B
Read moreSCJN Head Clashes against AMLO on Constitution in Queretaro
For her part, Piña used her speech at the ceremony as an opportunity to advocate for Mexican judges to solely be appointed based on prior qualifications rather than arbitrary means
Read moreINE Counselor Opines on Mexico’s Electoral Future
After posing his questions about the validity of the Plan B electoral reform, Murayama came to a simple conclusion: “the consequence of Plan B, as can be seen, can cause a political crisis just as serious as it is unnecessary”
Read morePlan B Could Cause Nationwide Electoral Collapse, Says INE
What Morena wants is for public servants to be able to broadcast propaganda and to contract advertising with no electoral body
Read morePolycrisis, the New Normal
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreAMLO Threatens to Veto His Own Plan B
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Dec. 15, threatened to veto his own Plan B initiative to essentially eradicate the National Electoral Institute (INE) — which just had passed in the Senate one day earlier — unless the clauses giving eternal existence to his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s minority allies are eliminated.
Read moreMexican Electoral Democracy Dims as ‘Plan B’ Reaches Senate Approval
By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “Plan B” electoral reform to Mexico’s secondary laws passed through the Mexican Senate on Wednesday, Dec. 14, with 63 votes in favor and 53 votes against, setting the stage for López Obrador to follow through on his long-term intentions to prune back the powers of the country’s autonomous electoral
Read moreSenate Prunes Morena’s ‘Plan B’ Reform as Opposition Cries Foul
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
Read moreMexican Senate ‘Hones’ AMLO’s Plan B to Decimate Electoral Agency
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Senate over the weekend chiseled away several clauses of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed Plan B to decimate the country’s most important electoral agency (and with it, weaken an already-strained national democratic process) that it considered possibly unconstitutional. The newly revised Plan B — which AMLO devised to get around the fact that
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