By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After the dismal turnout of barely 18 percent of eligible voters for his highly publicized revocation of mandate referendum the day before, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, April 11, admitted that he had received less than half the votes supporting his remainder in power than he had during his 2018
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Only 16 to 17 million Mexicans — about 17 to 18 percent of eligible voters — participated in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted revocation of mandate referendum on Sunday, April 10, according to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) preliminary figures, representing less than half the required turnout required for the referendum to be binding. And
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Mr. President, How Did You Fair in the Referendum?
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AMLO’s Revocation of Mandate Referendum
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For those who have not been following the upcoming Revocation of Mandate Referendum — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) key initiatives, allegedly intended to allow the Mexican people to vote to end his six-year term early, but claimed by critics to set a precedence for the extension of his term in
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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AMLO’s Revocation of Mandate Referendum
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Signing Up for AMLO’s Revocation Mandate
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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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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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