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The presidents of the Foreign Relations Committees of the United States Congress estimated this Friday that the approval of the so-called Plan B of electoral reform, promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “endangers the future of the institutions democratic” in Mexico.
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Through a statement signed by Democrat Bob Menéndez and Republican Michael McCaul, they pointed out that the reform reduces the payroll and the budget of the National Electoral Institute (INE), an organization that is disqualified by AMLO as onerous and for have tolerated fraud in the past.
“The Congress of Mexico has endangered the future of its country’s democratic institutions”
And it is that they have assured that it brings back not only Mexico “to its dark past of elections controlled by the president”, but also that of relations with the United States.
For this reason, they condemned “the repeated attempts of President López Obrador to sabotage the democratic institutions of Mexico”, affirming that the Mexican people deserve an “independent electoral authority capable of conducting free and fair elections and of being governed by leaders who respect the rule of law”.
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Finally, they warned that far from being a democrat and defender of the most vulnerable, AMLO seeks to break the autonomy and independence of the INE.