MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Tuesday his country is more democratic than the United States.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s testy comments came after U.S. officials took note of heated public debate in Mexico over López Obrador’s recently approved electoral reforms, which critics allege could weaken Mexico’s democracy. The reforms would cut spending for the country’s electoral authorities.
López Obrador angrily rejected any U.S. comment, even though U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price was careful to say in a statement Monday that “We respect Mexico’s sovereignty.”
The Mexican president responded “there is more democracy in Mexico than could exist in the United States.”
“If they want to have a debate on this issue, let’s do it,” López Obrador said pugnaciously. “I have evidence to prove there is more liberty and democracy in our country.”
The Mexican president is notoriously touchy about criticism, whether it comes from human rights groups, non-governmental organizations, the press, or Mexican regulatory or oversight agencies.
Price said in a statement that “Today, in Mexico, we see a great debate on electoral reforms on the independence of electoral and judicial institutions that illustrates Mexico’s vibrant democracy.”
“We respect Mexico’s sovereignty. We believe that a well-resourced, independent electoral system and respect for judicial independence support healthy democracy.”
At the root of the conflict are plans by López Obrador, which were approved last week by Mexico’s Senate, to cut salaries and funding for local election offices, and scale back training for citizens who operate and oversee polling stations. The changes would also reduce sanctions for candidates who fail to report campaign spending.
López Obrador denies the reforms are a threat to democracy and says criticism is elitist. He argues that the funds would be better spent on the poor.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated over the weekend in Mexico City’s main plaza, calling the cuts a threat to democracy.
that’s because America has a SOCIALIST LIBERAL Gov’t
Mexico is a narco-state the same way Saudi Arabia is an oil state.
Then why are the flooding across our borders
Sure. As long as you have enough money on you to pay off all the corrupt police officers that pull you over for no reason and threaten to throw you in a pit full of snakes and scorpions AKA jail. Or you’re lucky enough to make it out of the country alive from not being shot up with fully automatic weapons.
And America has more Mexicans than Mexico
At the rate of the socialist-fascist creeping takeover, North Korea will soon have more democracy than the US.
“We respect Mexico’s sovereignty. We believe that a well-resourced, independent electoral system and respect for judicial independence support healthy democracy.”
Why hasn’t Price ever said this about Israel?
That’s because they all escape to the USA Because of the government sanctioned drug cartels
True!! Look who is running our country
yes since the chinese spy who works for the CCP came
The Mexican president is just ranting off of his bolstering ego. According to the just-released Democracy index for 2022 (published by The Economist Intelligence Unit), the United States (a Flawed Democracy) ranks 30th in the world. Mexico; (a hybrid regime), ranks 89th in the world and has dropped by 3 in the rankings from the 2021 report. The US also dropped in the rankings by 4. Although the Americans maintained their previous year’s score, four other countries moved ahead of the US.
I can definitely tell you one thing
In the USA the worse crime is if you are a rich white man and you didn’t pay full taxes or took a bribe like Shelly or made a few bad statements on your bank loan docs like Rubashkin. Those are the really bad people who of course violated 15 counts etc. Of course if that same criminal was a perosn of color then the judge in NY has pity. And if its a rapist plus person of color like Cosby or murderer like OJ and yankel reosnebaum zt’l killer and monsey killer oh then you are innocent or mentally unfit. Only the rich white men are fit and guilty. Then of course if you dared to once sell trump lemonade ochen vey they will find a gottcha crime