Low turnout and fears over democratic backsliding marked Mexico’s shift to electing judges, which opens the way for the Morena party to dominate courts.
Mexico’s Supreme Court building in Mexico City. Mexico’s shift away from an appointment-based system to the election of judges has, at least for now, amounted to a crucial step in Morena’s consolidation of power.
On Friday, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico broadly criticized images of disturbances on U.S. streets that featured the Mexican flag as a “provocation.”
In a divisive and far-reaching election pushed by the governing Morena party, Mexicans voted for thousands of judges at every level on Sunday, remaking the courts.
The chamber of the Supreme Court in Mexico City. After the court blocked some of the plans of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he pushed to change the system to one in which voters elect judges at every level.
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