Federal Court Orders Reinstatement of Jacobo as INE Head
Jacobo was forced to step down from his post upon the publication of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s contentious Plan B electoral law
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Read moreWomen Take to the Streets for Mexico City’s 8M March
The barricade was announced by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a way to deter vandalism and violence from the protesters onto the National Palace
Read moreA Historic Moment for Mexico’s Supreme Court
Now, as the INE and the TEPJF face erosion under the new Plan B electoral reform, Mexico’s Supreme Court has a unique historic opportunity to safeguard, with the Constitution well in hand, the integrity of those key arbitrators
Read moreElectoral Experts Warn Plan B Will Make Voting a ‘Nightmare’
The panel also determined that while Plan B would theoretically represent a savings of 3.5 billion pesos, it does not detail how these savings would be accomplished nor take into account the costs of transforming the country’s current electoral bodies
Read moreINE’s Jacobo Dismissed upon Publication of Plan B
Jacobo has served as secretary general of the INE for 14 years, and would have served for another three years, until 2026, if not for the passage of the Plan B law
Read moreThe Road Ahead for the ‘Tres Amigos’
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreAMLO Accuses Supreme Court Head of Protecting Criminals
López Obrador alleged that the SCJN’s Piña-chaired Federal Judicial Council operates merely for decoration
Read moreAMLO Downplays Protest against New Electoral Law
López Obrador labeled those who joined the demonstration as “pure electoral racoons” who were following the orders of “white collar criminals”
Read moreThousands Show Up at Zócalo to Defend INE
Protesters also left flowers at the entrance of the SCJN, as a symbol of the confidence they have in the justices
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