Giant demonstration in the country: “Democracy is in danger”

Mexico witnessed yesterday one of the largest mass demonstrations in the country’s history.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico City and many other cities to protest the electoral arrangements of the left-wing government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Organizers said more than 500,000 people attended the demonstration in Mexico City.

Reacting to the government’s curtailment of the electoral board’s powers, protesters chanted anti-government chants, claiming that democracy in the country was under threat.

In Mexico, Congress approved resolutions Wednesday to revoke some of the powers of the National Electoral Institute. President Obrador criticized the electoral board, which is an independent institution, as “a corrupt and ineffective institution that makes decisions in favor of the opposition.”

Rejecting criticism that the changes to be made will harm the country’s democracy, Obrador announced that the opposition will take the decision to the Constitutional Court.

For his part, the Undersecretary of State of the United States, Brian Nichols, affirmed that they support the democratic process in Mexico.