Political Reform At Last

MEXICO - Report 20 May 2014 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary Last week Congress approved an overhaul of the country’s electoral laws to bring them in keeping with the relevant constitutional amendments passed last year, thereby eliminating the possibility that the 2015 midterm elections might be held in some kind of legal limbo. In the process, lawmakers also satisfied the National Action Party’s insistence that such legislation be passed before it would consider secondary laws needed to implement the reforms that were also passed last year regarding the energy and telecommunications sectors. The new electoral laws explicitly define...

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