The Mexican Senate gave the green light this Friday to a constitutional reform that opens the door to invalidating elections in which foreign interference is proven, just one day after the Chamber of Deputies approved the same text. The initiative now goes to the state congresses, which must rule to complete the legislative procedure.
The reform was approved with the favorable vote of the 85 senators from Morena and its allies in the Government, despite harsh criticism from the opposition, which claims that the ruling party seeks to impose a kind of censorship on national and international media to prevent them from reporting on possible irregularities during elections.
In this context, Movimiento Ciudadano senator Luis Donaldo Colosio censured that the reform does not refer to organized crime, which is indeed "the interference that silences voices, that knocks down candidacies, that defines the political map of entire communities at gunpoint," reports "El Universal".
The promoter of the initiative, Ricardo Monreal, defended on the eve that those who oppose this constitutional change are, in practice, supporting a possible foreign military intervention in Mexico or the reception of economic resources from foreign governments to influence the outcome of the polls.
The modification of article 41 of the Constitution contemplates the possibility of annulling federal and state elections when the intervention or interference of foreign agents is proven, whether they are individuals, political formations, or other types of organizations.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, celebrated the approval of this constitutional reform on Thursday and warned that the elections scheduled for 2027 could be threatened by the interference of foreign actors.