•REFERENDUM: Mexico’s Supreme Court allowed to move forward with a referendum seeking to clarify abuses in the country’s recent past but decided to alter the question originally presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, leaving out the names of five former Mexican Presidents.
•VOTE: In an 8-to-3 vote, the court said that the referendum proposed by López Obrador was legal but changed the wording of the question planned to be presented before Mexican voters in August 2021. Dissenters argued that nothing in current Mexican law prevented prosecutions to happen.
•QUESTION: “Do you agree or not that pertinent actions should be taken with adherence to the constitutional and applicable law to start a process of clarifying political decisions taken by political actors in past years with the aim to ensure justice and rights of possible victims?”, says the new question.
•PROCESS: After Thursday’s court decision, both chambers of Mexico’s Congress will have to vote on whether or not to hold a referendum. Before the court made the changes to the wording of the question, it was largely expected that ruling party Morena and its allies in Congress will approve it.
