Mexico's constitutional amendment adding foreign interference as grounds for election annulment is a necessary defense of sovereignty. Advanced democracies worldwide already have mechanisms to prevent foreign meddling, and this reform simply closes a gap in Mexican law. Only the Electoral Tribunal's full bench can validate interference claims, making arbitrary abuse essentially impossible.
This reform hands Morena a legal weapon to nullify elections it expects to lose in 2027, plain as day. The vague wording gives state-controlled electoral bodies sweeping discretion to label inconvenient political pressure as foreign interference. Organized crime — not foreign tweets — is the real threat to Mexican democracy, and this law does nothing about that.
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