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Weekly Report - 29 March 2012 (WR-12-13)
MEXICO: IFE sticks to hard line, inconveniencies everyone
Mexico’s election oversight body, the Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE), has been adopting an increasingly hard line in enforcing the country’s electoral laws ahead of the upcoming presidential and legislative contests on 1 July in an attempt to cement its authority [WR-12-07]. While previously IFE upset Mexico’s political parties by stubbornly refusing to bring forward the dates for the campaigning period for the presidential elections even though the main parties had already chosen their presidential candidates, this time it has exposed serious faults in party lists of candidates for the legislative elections and has threatened to remove these lists from the elections.
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