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AMLO Administration Proposes 4.4 Billion Peso Budget Slash to the INE

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By KELIN DILLON After years of threatening to reduce the efficacy of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration and National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – acting under López Obrador’s Fourth Transformation (4T) campaign promise – finally attempted to make good on its promise, proposing to slash the INE’s requested budget for 2023 by 4.475

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Augusto López Announces PRIMor Legislative Alliance

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By KELIN DILLON On Thursday, Oct. 13, Mexican Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López announced that the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party and its former rival the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI) have formed a legislative alliance – known as PRIMor – to push electoral reforms and Morena’s controversial electricity reforms through Mexico’s legislative body. The news comes just

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Va Por México Suspended as Moreno Doubles Down on PRI’s Proposal

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By KELIN DILLON Following days of contention between members of Mexico’s Va por México electoral alliance surrounding the Party of Institutional Revolution’s (PRI) proposal to expand the influence of the Mexican Armed forces in the streets — a move made in collaboration with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the very party that Va por México was created to defeat

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Visible Fissures Erupt from within Va por México Alliance

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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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Va Por México Coalition Reaffirms Alliance for 2023, 2024 Polls

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By MARK LORENZANA Members of the Va Por México coalition, which consists of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), reaffirmed their alliance on Tuesday, Aug. 30, and are set to agree on fielding their chosen candidates in the upcoming 2023 local public elections and the

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Morena Removes Moreno as Senate Governance Commission Head

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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Aug. 10, deputies from Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, Green Party (PVEM) and Labor Party (PT) convened to remove Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) President Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas as the president of the Senate’s multiparty Government Commission of the Interior, a move expected to be ratified in a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies

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Morena Pushes through Full 2022 Budget Proposal

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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and its allies passed the country’s proposed 2022 budget through Congress without any financial reductions, despite the opposition’s request for such, in a 274 to 219 split vote. The move will see 7.08 billion pesos allotted for all of Mexico’s expenditures in the upcoming year, controversially allocating

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PAN, PRD Call out PRI for Not Blocking Electric Reform

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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which, along with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) make up the Va Por México coalition, called out the PRI for not presenting further roadblocks to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) electric reform alongside them in a private meeting held on Monday, Oct. 4. The

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National Guard Bill Heads For the Senate

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     Even though it’s been approved by the Chamber of Deputies, and will surely be fast-tracked by the Mexican Senate, the integration of the National Guard (GN) remains a farfetched endeavor. The approved bill provides for the GN to section off Mexico into 266 different commands. Initially,  the National Guard  will be made up of as many as 50,000 officers from the

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