An “electoral reform” in Mexico will make elections less safe
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is nobbling the electoral commission
When Mexico’s president decides he wants to do something, he does not give up easily. Andrés Manuel López Obrador has long yearned to weaken Mexico’s electoral body, the Instituto Nacional Electoral, known as the INE. He has held a grudge against it since 2006, when he claims that the INE rigged the vote in a presidential election, causing him to lose to Felipe Calderón, a centre-right politician, by 0.6 percentage points. There is no evidence that this is true.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Man bites watchdog”
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