President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is moving to concentrate more power in his hands. He signalled his intent this week to dismantle Mexico’s multi-faceted institutional structure not by taking a wrecking ball to it but “bit by bit”. López Obrador condemned the country’s 100-odd autonomous government institutions as costly, ineffective, and vestiges of the “neo-liberal period”. The political opposition accused him of trying to eliminate executive constraints, which serve to bolster the state’s credibility, under the guise of austerity.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1386 words.
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