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Mexico & Nafta - November 2015 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Independent streak threatens traditional parties
Jaime ‘El Bronco’ Rodríguez Calderón was by far the most prominent of the independent candidates to win election last June, but it is the work of another successful independent that could have the most-lasting impact on Mexican politics. Days before Rodríguez was sworn in as Mexico’s first independent state governor in Nuevo León on 4 October, the first independent candidate to win a seat in the federal lower chamber of congress in June’s concurrent congressional elections tabled a proposal to deepen the 2014 electoral law that allowed independents to run for office. Manuel Clouthier, who was elected in Culiacán, the state capital of Sinaloa, has won the support of some high-profile politicians and academics for his proposal.
- Colima thrust under a spotlight
- Independent streak threatens traditional parties
- New analysis of the proposed anti-corruption system
- Sonora implements judicial reform
- Mérida Initiative cut meant to send a message
- Peña Nieto touts progress in social development goals
- Changing direction on soft drinks tax?
- Government pressing on with oil licensing
- Restoring ties with Cuba