Mexico’s President Sends New Bill to Congress to Overhaul Election Regulator

Mexico’s lower house fast-tracked a bill to downsize the nation’s electoral regulator as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pushes to overhaul voting rules less than two years before general elections.

The new legislation, which was presented a few hours before its early Wednesday approval, reduces the number of offices within the electoral body, known as INE, the president said. It also gives the federal government greater budgetary control over the agency, according to Reforma newspaper. It now heads to the senate for discussion.