Mexico approves presidential recall vote – El Universal

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On Tuesday, Mexico’s Congress approved a raft of constitutional changes that include permitting the right to a recall vote on the president, overriding opposition concerns it may open the door to allowing re-election of the country’s leader.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pressed for the recall provision, arguing it should serve as a democratic check on his record. The president’s term is limited to six years and he has said several times he will not seek to change that. The opposition argued he wanted a presidential recall vote to put himself onto an…