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Mexico: Expanding Democracy and Defending Sovereignty
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EPISODE: Mexico: Expanding Democracy and Defending Sovereignty
GUEST: José Luis Granados Ceja, journalist with Venezuelanalysis and The Mexico Solidarity Project
BACKGROUND:
The international press is again bludgeoning Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this time accusing him of attacking the country’s democratic institutions. It’s a baseless charge intended to undermine a government that refuses total obedience to US hegemony.
On February 23, an electoral reform bill received its final approval in the Mexican Senate en route to being signed into law
The National Electoral Institute (INE) is widely recognized to be riddled with excess expenditure and a top-heavy bureaucracy. The new law simply mandates similar cost-saving measures to those that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has applied to other governmental departments. It eliminates duplicate functions at the local and district level, and fuses certain higher-level job descriptions. It also reins in eye-catching top salaries.
The law also facilitates voting rights for the disabled, those held in pretrial detention, and the millions of migrants living abroad. It provides tougher sanctions for the endemic practice of vote-buying and enshrines in law the inclusion of minorities and members of vulnerable groups on candidate lists
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