nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230223-031713-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230222s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230223-031713-0 doi eng 342 23 Ríos-Figueiroa, Julio Author aut Democratic Backsliding and the Supreme Court in Mexico Ríos-Figueiroa, Julio Verfassungsblog 2023-02-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Democratic backsliding begins at the ballot box, and the turning point in Mexico was the election of 2018, which the charismatic leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his party won by a landslide. López Obrador’s government has pushed through a comprehensive electoral reform which will negatively affect the right to vote and the legitimacy of the general election of 2024. The Supreme Court will have to decide whether the reform stands or not. CC BY-SA 4.0 Andrés Manuel López Obrador judicial independence Mexican Supreme Court Mexico Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/democratic-backsliding-and-the-supreme-court-in-mexico/ raw object