Hope the following is informative to those of you who are following the attempted theft of an election by RightWing Extremists in Mexico.
I. A columnist of centrist newspaper, El Universal, yesterday wrote a compelling column arguing for the possible annulment of the elections.
By law, third-parties can't buy ad time for or against a candidate. Yet, many corporations and corporate lobbying groups did just that.
AMLO and his campaign would file a complaint immediately, but the IFE would take weeks to act, thereby allowing these RightWing Business groups to disseminate their lies (ie. calling AMLO fiscally irresponsible, when the fact is that S&P, Moody's and Fitch all praised AMLO's fiscal resp. as Mayor of Mexico City).
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One egregious example, in the column below, was that of the RightWing business group, CCE, whose members have enjoyed the impunity granted to them by the PRI and the PAN. Please note that the CCE also assisted the impeachment campaign against AMLO last year.
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