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Student Edition: Weekly Report - 22 August 2019

MEXICO: Austerity for all

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has submitted a new constitutional reform proposal to the national congress. The aim of the reform is to extend the salary caps that the López Obrador administration has introduced for the federal executive branch as part of its ‘Republican austerity’ cost-cutting drive to the other federal government branches, federal autonomous bodies, and state and municipal governments. López Obrador maintains that the initiative is specifically designed to strengthen the federal government’s finances to the benefit of the national economy. But detractors caution that the move could weaken institutions and allow López Obrador to concentrate political power in his own hands. 

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