Disagreements over the coalition’s rules for the selection of its presidential candidate and dissatisfaction with party leadership has caused a wave of resignations across Va por México and the PRI’s ranks
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By KELIN DILLON While the controversial electoral reform presented by Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been widely rejected by opposition parties, the international community and the Mexican electorate alike, Morena has now encountered another roadblock to its proposed electoral reform to the Mexican Constitution – this time in the form of
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By KELIN DILLON When Mexico’s Va por México Alliance – a coalition of the nation’s once-dominate Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI), conservative National Action Party (PAN) and left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) – was once touted as a collaborative solution to the modern prominence of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) upon its
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By MARK LORENZANA As a result of their poor turnout in Mexico’s gubernatorial elections on Sunday, June 5, in which candidates of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) failed to reach the mandatory 3 percent of the vote in several constituencies, both parties will lose their registration as local parties in those areas,
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico’s complex political system has historically stood out from those of other Latin American nations for conforming a multiparty structure composed of a wide variety of political organizations. The favorable conditions promoted by the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for the creation of new political parties have been key factors for the evergreen emergence
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Political Alliances between Oppositions Parties
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO: “I’m not an ornamental vase” There must have been more to the matter than met the naked eye. If not, why did Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) raise so much hell over it? On Sunday, April 26, the Mexican Business Association and the investment department of the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) announced that they
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19, Imported From Italy Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell informed the public on Sunday, March 1, that there are now five confirmed cases of Covid-19 (also known as novel coronavirus), plus 11 suspected cases. Hence, he said, the nation is not in a state of emergency. López-Gatell said that the outbreak of the virus in Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Baja California state electoral controversy may have finally come to an end. Late Tuesday, July 23, the Baja state congress met at the municipality of Rosarito Beach to confirm that the governance period for Governor-elect Jaime Bonilla Valdéz from two to five years is valid. Early the next day, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Baja California state Congress majority vote to extend from two to five years the tenure of governor-elect Jaime Bonilla Valdéz is an issue that promises to reshape Mexican politics. (For background info, see my July 15 article on this news item.) Many are against the extension, while others defend it not just because it is the
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