Morena wants to annul elections that don't favor them, PAN accuses; Jorge Romero demands fight against narco interference at the polls

Mexico's National Action Party (PAN) has accused the ruling Morena party of a strategic maneuver to annul election results that prove unfavorable. PAN national president Jorge Romero Herrera warned that Morena intends to leverage a recently approved congressional reform concerning foreign interference to overturn election outcomes.

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Nobody wants any intervention, of any kind, much less foreign. Nobody has interfered with Mexico in recent days. Nobody, they want you to believe that that is the point.

Romero Herrera criticized the reform, suggesting it allows for the annulment of results based on vague interpretations of foreign intervention. He asserted that no foreign entities are currently interfering in Mexico's affairs and that Morena is using national sovereignty as a pretext for authoritarian aims. The PAN leader specifically pointed to the potential for ambiguous clauses to be exploited, citing that even a foreign news article or a tweet from an international individual could be used to challenge election results.

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What cannot be is that using sovereignty as a pretext, the "guindas" authoritarians seek to annul elections they do not like.

The PAN's primary concern, however, lies with what it identifies as the "true problem": the intervention of organized crime in elections. Romero Herrera accused Morena of deliberately avoiding this issue, while criminal groups allegedly threaten communities, pressure voters, steal ballot boxes, and intimidate opposition to ensure votes for Morena. The party insists on the inclusion of a clear clause to annul any election proven to be influenced by organized crime, stating that "without confronting the narco in elections, there are no elections."

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The only intervention that does not concern them is criminal intervention, the one that is truly happening in Mexico. We have all seen it, in many states we have suffered it.