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AMLO Proposes Reforms to Energize Base Before Election

  • Proposals will be sent to lower house of Congress for debate
  • The wide-ranging package is unlikely to pass in its entirety
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s president, speaks during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Photographer: Luis Antonio Rojas/Bloomberg
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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador unveiled a swath of long-shot constitutional reforms to pensions, workers’ wages and the Supreme Court, a move seen as designed to energize his base and bait the opposition ahead of June’s elections.

The 20-point package was bound to the lower house on Monday, after a speech made by Lopez Obrador to present the proposals that are unlikely to pass through Congress in their entirety.