The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
The president may not achieve the legacy he wants
Mexico’s supreme court has ruled that elements of a series of laws hastily pushed through by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to change the electoral system were unconstitutional. The laws imposed looser limits on how public officials, many of them members of the president’s Morena party, can campaign.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “AMLO v the court”
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