{"id":1738054,"date":"2022-11-14T11:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738054"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:48:49","slug":"tens-of-thousands-protest-mexico-presidents-left-wing-election-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tens-of-thousands-protest-mexico-presidents-left-wing-election-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of Thousands Protest Mexico President\u2019s Left-Wing Election Overhaul"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftens-of-thousands-protest-mexico-presidents-left-wing-election-overhaul%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=1738054&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--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Critics say reforms would centralize control under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador<\/p>\n<p>    Demonstrators march against the electoral reform proposed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and in support of the National Electoral Institute (INE) in Mexico City, Mexico, November 13, 2022. REUTERS\/Luis Cortes   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/reuters\/\" title=\"Posts by Reuters\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Reuters<\/a> \u2022 November 14, 2022 11:45 am  <\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY (Reuters)\u2014Tens of thousands took to the streets in Mexico on Sunday to protest President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador&#8217;s plan to overhaul the country&#8217;s electoral commission INE in what they fear would concentrate power in the hands of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Obrador, who put the plan forward in April, has long criticized the country&#8217;s electoral authorities, including accusing them of helping to engineer his defeats when he ran for the presidency in 2006 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He has said that the reform would let citizens elect electoral authorities and reduce the influence of economic interests in politics. It would also cut financing for political parties and limit advertising time.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Congress started discussing the plan.<\/p>\n<p>It sparked widespread concerns that the changes could presage a power grab because it gives the president more control over the electoral systems.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Lopez Obrador pursued contentious policies by pitching referendums \u2013 including on the cancellation of a part-built airport \u2013 to claim popular mandates for his objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters in Mexico City, many holding placards and banners or wearing t-shirts with slogans &#8220;defending the INE&#8221;, started at the Angel of Independence monument.<\/p>\n<p>It gathered momentum during the day as protesters moved on Reforma Avenue towards the Monument to the Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters witness estimated tens of thousands protesters had taken part while a police officer on Reforma who witnessed the march estimated 50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers put the number at hundreds of thousands but some political allies of Lopez Obrador gave far lower estimates.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the biggest marches against Lopez Obrador&#8217;s policies so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democracy in Mexico is in danger,&#8221; said Ana Lilia Moreno, an economist who attended the march in the capital with her eight-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that many young people \u2013 and even those who are normally not interested in politics \u2013 will attend, that they will value our institutions, and will defend what our parents and grandparents built to mature politically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters shared images from other cities on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Obrador posted a video message on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY (Reuters)\u2014Tens of thousands took to the streets in Mexico on Sunday to protest President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador&#8217;s plan to overhaul the country&#8217;s electoral commission INE in what they fear would concentrate power in the hands of the government.<br \/>\nThe post Tens of Thousands Protest Mexico President\u2019s Left-Wing Election Overhaul appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1738057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738054","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}