Tens of thousands of Mexicans demonstrated on Sunday across the country against an overhaul of the electoral system, saying it could undermine democracy
MEXICO CITY—Tens of thousands of Mexicans demonstrated on Sunday across the country against an overhaul of the electoral system proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that opponents say risks undermining Mexico’s democracy.
Demonstrators took to the streets in more than two dozen cities, waving flags and wearing caps and T-shirts in the pink colors of Mexico’s autonomous agency in charge of organizing elections. They shouted slogans in defense of the National Electoral Institute, or INE, as the agency is known.
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