David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

... the achievement of the body known since 2014 as the National Electoral Institute: INE. Mexican President Lopez Obrador hates the INE - partly because of petty personal grudges, but mostly because he wants to revert to the bad old days of presidentially directed elections. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 23, 2023

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That system of presidential control of Mexican elections came unstuck in the 1990s. An independent agency was created to run elections. It started small, but it grew. By the 2000s, Mexican elections were as fair and honest as any in the world. All this was the achievement 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 23, 2023

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Lopez Obrador has tried different schemes to pervert honest elections. The law he crammed through the Mexican Senate tonight effectively destroys INE's local presence in Mexico's ~900 polling places. The effect of this law - it's grotesque to call it a "reform" - 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 23, 2023