Colombo (news 1st) – Huge rallies have been held on Sunday (26th) in several Mexican cities against what protesters say are government attempts to undermine the electoral authorities.
The biggest was in Mexico City, where organizers say 500,000 people marched on the city's main plaza. However, the local government put the number at 90,000.
Last week, lawmakers voted to slash the budget of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and cut its staffing. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accuses the INE of being partisan.
But opponents describe the recent vote as an attack on democracy itself, pressing the Supreme Court to overturn them as unconstitutional.
On Sunday, massive crowds gathered in Mexico City's historic Zocalo Square. The demonstrators spilled out into adjoining streets in the city centre.

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