President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has held a grudge against Mexico’s electoral body since 2006 and has long yearned to weaken it
Some of the most damaging ideas of the president’s proposed constitutional amendment were removed. Thewill not be dismantled and its senior people will still be elected by parliamentary votes, rather than directly by the public, as Mr López Obrador had wanted. The electoral court will not be subsumed into the Supreme Court. Still, there is much that is concerning.
There will also be less to regulate, as Mexico’s strict limits on campaigning will become looser. These limits were designed to make elections fairer by reducing the advantages of incumbency. Until now, candidates were banned from campaigning more than three months ahead of elections and in the two days immediately preceding them. Public servants, including the president, were barred from boasting about their achievements during the campaign period.
But from now on campaigning is not restricted to a set period of time. People in positions of power, including the president, can openly campaign for their party and chosen candidates whenever they like—although they cannot explicitly call for people to vote for them. A rule which bans the use of public funds for “self-promotion” will be scrapped; in theory, the president could use public coffers to print a million leaflets lauding his successes .
Since Morena, the president’s party, is so dominant, this tilts the playing field in its favour, giving it many of the same tools used by thein the past. “It ties the opposition’s hands behind their backs while giving steroids to the ruling party,” says Denise Dresser, an academic.’s budget in 2022 is 13.9bn pesos , just 0.2% of federal spending. Theis large, but so is Mexico: setting up polling booths across it is no easy task.
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