By KELIN DILLON Following Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) failure to sufficiently reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass his controversial electoral reform to the Mexican Constitution in the Chamber of Deputies, the federal executive followed through on his intentions to impose a “plan b” electoral reform to the nation’s secondary laws in the early hours of Wednesday,
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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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By KELIN DILLON In the early hours of Wednesday, Oct. 26, Mexico’s Senate approved the proposed 2023 Federal Income Law in a vote of 65 in favor, 44 against and two abstentions, preserving the initiative verbatim sent by the executive branch and Chamber of Deputies, without any changes. Set to go into effect in 2023, the newly passed Federal Income
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and opposing Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI) continue to reach collaborative agreements surrounding expanding the presence of the Mexican Armed Forces in the streets, the unexpected alliance took a new twist on Tuesday, Sept. 20, when members of both parties expressed a willingness to join forces with one another
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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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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) so-called electoral reform bill, which he announced during his Thursday, April 28, press conference at the National Palace and sent to Congress for approval that same day, has one purpose and one purpose only: to further consolidate power in his dictatorial hands and to essentially eradicate any political opposition
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON After years of repeated talk about reforming Mexico’s electoral system, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, April 28, that he would be sending his new electoral reform legislation to Mexican Congress, which would replace the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) with an organization called the Institute of National Elections and Consultation, as
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, April 20, Mexican legislator and president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate, Ricardo Monreal – the namesake for one of in-power political party the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) controversial pieces of legislation – called on his fellow party members during Wednesday’s plenary session to “stop the lynching campaign” against opposition parties for
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after the congressional defeat of his controversial electricity reform bill — which would have prioritized state-run carbon-based energy sources over clean private-sector sources — Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday, April 19, passed Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “Plan B” lithium bill as a political consolation prize for the president. The new bill, which will ensure
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one day after Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted to approve a reform that would have allowed financial institutions that grant loans to workers to garnish payments directly from their salaries, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) let it be known on Friday, March 18, that he would veto the bill if it was
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