Mexico’s controversial electoral reforms heralding a return to one-party rule

Thousands protest against the president’s autocratic powergrab ahead of elections next year

Supporters of the National Electoral Institute flood Mexico City’s main square, 26 February 2023
Supporters of the National Electoral Institute (INE) in Mexico City this week
(Image credit: Daniel Cárdenas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Half a million people took to the streets of Mexico City on Sunday to protest the government’s controversial electoral reforms and the increasingly autocratic tendencies of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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Elliott Goat is a freelance writer at The Week Digital. A winner of The Independent's Wyn Harness Award, he has been a journalist for over a decade with a focus on human rights, disinformation and elections. He is co-founder and director of Brussels-based investigative NGO Unhack Democracy, which works to support electoral integrity across Europe. A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow focusing on unions and the Future of Work, Elliott is a founding member of the RSA's Good Work Guild and a contributor to the International State Crime Initiative, an interdisciplinary forum for research, reportage and training on state violence and corruption.