Mexico Approves Election Annulment Reform over Interference

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Article 41 of the Constitution now provides for the annulment of an election when 'proven acts of foreign intervention or interference affecting the results'

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The constitutional proposal was forwarded to the state legislatures to safeguard national sovereignty against campaigns of external manipulation.

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President Claudia Sheinbaum’s judicial reform took place in the Senate, suffocating any internal resistance. In a session that lasted until the early hours of Friday, the majority formed by Morena, the Green Party and the PT also approved the cause of electoral nullity due to foreign interference and the commission that will review that candidates for election have no links to crime. Thus, the four judges of the Electoral Tribunal who were exten…

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In a third extraordinary session, which began shortly before midnight, the Senate approved that it would be possible to cancel elections if foreign intervention was confirmed. The reform adds a new cause for cancelling the elections held in Mexico. In article 41 “for serious, malicious and decisive violations” in the event that: “acts of foreign intervention or interference that influence the election results are proven.” On the one hand, the co…