The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO

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.

The legislation was part of a package of reforms that the president, often known as amlo, said would reduce the cost of elections and strengthen democracy. In reality the laws would endanger it. If allowed to stand, they could affect the vote to pick governors in two states later this year and the outcome of the general election scheduled for mid-2024.  Tens of thousands of people have protested against them since they were passed in February.