Mexico's president seeks broad constitutional reforms ahead of June elections


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  • Tuesday, 06 Feb 2024

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his daily press conference, in Acapulco, Mexico December 20, 2023. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's president proposed sweeping constitutional reforms in a speech on Monday, including measures to overhaul the judiciary, electoral law, pensions, and environmental regulations, just months before a presidential election.

"The reforms that I propose seek to establish constitutional rights and strengthen ideals and principles related to humanism, justice, honesty, austerity and democracy," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a speech in the capital, Mexico City, on Mexico's Constitution Day, a national holiday.

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