Mexicans Rally Nationwide Against President’s Electoral Overhaul

INA-source
Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans rallied across the country for the second time in less than four months against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s overhaul of the country’s independent election agency, saying it will cripple its ability to organize next year’s presidential election. 

In one of the largest protests against Mr. López Obrador’s administration, more than 150,000 demonstrators filled Mexico City’s large Zócalo square and adjacent streets in the historic district of the country’s capital, a senior police official said. Protesters waved flags, umbrellas and banners with the distinctive pink colors of the National Electoral Institute, also known as INE. Others wore pink caps and clothes.

In a festive mood, demonstrators in Mexico City chanted slogans in favor of the electoral agency and against Mr. López Obrador, a leftist nationalist who became president in 2018 on an antiestablishment platform.