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Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City s vast main plaza to protest electoral law reforms that they say threaten democracy. The marchers were clad mostly in white and pink the color of the National Electoral Institute and shouted slogans like “Don t Touch my Vote!” The proposals by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador were passed last week. They would cut salaries, funding for local election offices and training for citizens who operate and oversee polling stations. Sanctions for candidates who fail to report campaign spending would be reduced.
Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City’s vast main plaza Sunday to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s electoral law changes they say threaten democracy and could mark a return to the past. The plaza is normally thought to hold nearly 100,000 people, but many protesters who couldn’t fit in the square spilled onto…