Mexico Changes
Fox Pushes Reform
Article by: Staff Report

President Vicente Fox Quesada, who broke the PRI's 71-year hold on power in Mexico, says his very victory shows the time is right to change Mexico's constitution.

Fox wants to add safeguards into the constitution to ensure no single party can dominate politics again. He would also add mechanisms to allow impeaching presidents. In a recent ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the Mexican Constitution, he made the following remarks:

"The change in power seen in the last federal elections does not, in itself, guarantee the establishment of a new regulatory framework in line with the democratic spirit of the new times. Therefore, given the unavoidable commitment to the promotion of a comprehensive reform of the state, there has to be change in political structures and operations, as well as in the relationships between power and society. Change must be brought about in institutions, because it has already happened in society.

"The popular mandate of July 2 was clear: we want a different Mexico. Society voted for a change in the rules, in institutions, and in our objectives, not only for a change in the group in power. Thus, the difference between the past and the future will be precisely the rule of law, brought up to date, that shall prevail.

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