López Obrador accuses the US of meddling in Mexico’s affairs due to electoral reform

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused this Tuesday USA to interfere in the internal affairs of Mexicoafter statements by the State Department on a controversial electoral reform of the leftist ruling party.

“As is the bad habit, they always meddle in matters that do not correspond to them,” López Obrador said in his usual daily press conference, stressing that the expressions of the State Department contradict the idea of ​​President Joe Biden on a foot of “equality” in the relationship between both countries.

Addressing the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, the president emphatically pointed out that “There is currently more democracy in Mexico than in the United States.”

“Instead of meddling, acting in an interventionist way in our affairs, if they want to continue with the same policy, then they should deal with what is happening in Peru”the president maintained, when denouncing Washington’s support for “The coup plotters who trampled on freedoms and democracy in that country.”

Last Sunday, after a protest by hundreds of thousands of opponents against the reform and the government of López Obrador, the head of US diplomacy for Latin America, Brian Nichols, considered that these changes “They test the independence of electoral and judicial institutions.”

For his part, on Monday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the United States supports “independent electoral institutions” throughout the world and that this is valid for Mexico.

The reform approved last week in Congress reduces the staff of the National Electoral Institute (INE), an entity that must organize the presidential elections in mid-2024, and which López Obrador accuses of costing public coffers a lot of money and of having tolerated frauds in the past.

Source: AFP