{"id":1407672,"date":"2022-03-29T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407672"},"modified":"2022-03-29T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:45:50","slug":"mexicos-president-floats-proposal-for-public-to-pick-electoral-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexicos-president-floats-proposal-for-public-to-pick-electoral-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s president floats proposal for public to pick electoral authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexicos-president-floats-proposal-for-public-to-pick-electoral-authorities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407672&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-29T180111Z_1_LYNXNPEI2S10K_RTROPTP_0_MEXICO-POLITICS-ELECTION_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Felipe Angeles International Airport inauguration ceremony in Zumpango municipality\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at a conference prior to the inauguration of the new Felipe Angeles Airport in Zumpango municipality in Mexico State, Mexico March 21, 2022. REUTERS\/Luis Cortes\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) \u2013     Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will send a proposal to Congress in April aimed at letting citizens elect electoral authorities, sparking concerns the move could presage a power grab.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Obrador, a leftist, has criticized electoral authorities for years, including accusing them of widespread vote fraud in 2006 and 2012 when he ran and lost bids for the presidency, arguing that the system is stacked against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that free, secret voting is ensured, so that there is no electoral fraud \u2026 The people are going to choose directly,\u201d Lopez Obrador told a regular morning news conference. <\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s executive, legislative and judicial branches would put forward candidates who were \u201ctruly independent, of unquestionable honesty,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics say having the public vote on such candidates could give undue control of the electoral system to Lopez Obrador, who has pursued contentious policies by pitching referendums to claim popular mandates for his objectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would affect the electoral principles of impartiality, objectivity, certainty, autonomy, independence and fairness,\u201d Francisco Burgoa, a law professor at Mexico\u2019s National Autonomous University, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Ramirez, a former head of Mexico\u2019s pension system, said on Twitter that Lopez Obrador\u2019s proposal marked an attempt to \u201ccapture\u201d the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) by mobilizing his supporters. <\/p>\n<p>The Mexican president has frequently clashed with the INE, and lawmakers slashed funding for the entity by 20% in the 2022 budget. <\/p>\n<p>Lopez Obrador next month will hold a recall referendum on his presidency in a bid to strengthen his democratic mandate. Turnout for his referendums has tended to be low.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon, Raul Cortes, Valentine Hilaire and Adriana Barrera; editing by Paul Simao)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at a conference prior to the inauguration of the new Felipe Angeles Airport in Zumpango municipality in Mexico State, Mexico March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}