INE and Mexican Government Clash Over Absentee Ballots
The INE approved 180,686 foreign voter applications in total – or 82 percent of the overall application pool.
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AMLO Proposes Three Women for Vacant Supreme Court Position
López Obrador’s shortlist is made up of María Estela Ríos, Bertha Alcalde Lujan and Lenia Batres, all of which have ties to the National Regeneration Movement
Read moreMexican Senate Approves Extinction of Judicial Trusts
A handful of National Regeneration Movement senators, including former Supreme Court Justice of the Nation Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero, voted against the initiative
Read morePlan B Could Cause Nationwide Electoral Collapse, Says INE
What Morena wants is for public servants to be able to broadcast propaganda and to contract advertising with no electoral body
Read moreAfter Electricity Reform Failure, AMLO Pivots to Lithium
By KELIN DILLON Just one day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform was blocked from passing by opposition members of the Chamber of Deputies, López Obrador returned with a new initiative – legislation nationalizing Mexico’s natural lithium supply – for the parliamentary chamber to vote on during its Monday, April 18, session. Never one to
Read moreMorena Promotes Mandate Revocation through Mexican Army
By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexico’s Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) prohibited the federal government and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration from promoting April 10’s upcoming mandate revocation through government propaganda, the Mexican government has come under fire for using military planes, the National Guard and Army generals to
Read moreAMLO Announces Reform to Publicly Elect Electoral Counselors
By KELIN DILLON Following an extended controversy with Mexico’s autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE), especially surrounding the upcoming mandate revocation process, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took to his daily morning press conference on Tuesday, March 29, to announce his intentions to reform Mexican legislation to grant electoral magistrates and judges their seats through a public
Read moreMexico’s Revocation of Mandate Referendum
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
Read moreAMLO Accuses INE of Hiding Mandate Revocation’s Ballot Boxes
By KELIN DILLON In the midst of the ongoing controversy surrounding Mexico’s autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) holding mandate revocation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican executive took to his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, March 16, to accuse the INE of hiding the locations of the process’ ballot boxes, requesting for organization officials to “define”
Read moreSupreme 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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