Salinas to Seek Vote Observers
President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, eager to show that August presidential elections will be free of fraud, will propose allowing foreign observers, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The proposal, to be made Thursday at election reform talks between Interior Minister Jorge Carpizo MacGregor and political parties, will break a longstanding national taboo against foreign election observers.
Salinas’ governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has been in power since 1929, has previously ruled out foreign observers as an unacceptable breach of Mexican sovereignty.
Pressure for electoral reform has been building in Mexico, particularly since the uprising launched New Year’s Day in the southern state of Chiapas by Indians belonging to the self-styled Zapatista National Liberation Army.
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