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Supreme Court Reworks Judgment on INE’s Mandate Consultation

By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Feb. 2, Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) ordered the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) to follow through with its mandate revocation consultation as far as the confines of its predetermined annual budget will allow it, and similarly created a protective shield for the INE’s General Council members from any criminal responsibility administrative action surrounding the process.

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AMLO: If INE Won’t Hold Referendum, General Public Can Do the Job

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a true if-the-mountain-won’t-come-to-Mohammed moment, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, Dec. 21, that should the National Electoral Institute (INE) not agree to hold his controversial mandate revocation referendum, Mexican citizens could organize the nonbinding poll on their own. “Democracy comes from the people, not from an administrative apparatus,”AMLO said during his daily morning

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INE Cancels Mandate Revocation Vote, Morena Cries Foul

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) Council voted on Friday, Dec. 17, to postpone indefinitely a referendum for the nonbinding revocation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) mandate, the president’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) said that it will appeal that decision before the nation’s Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF). The revocation of mandate referendum,

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