Two States Make it Harder for Independents, Pass 'Anti-Bronco' Legislation Mexico News Daily
go to original July 3, 2015

Clouthier, left, and Rodríguez: independents made history.

It’s being called the Anti-Bronco Law in reference to the successful candidate for governor of Nuevo León in the June 7 elections. But Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, nicknamed “El Bronco,” wasn’t just any candidate, he was an independent.

And in the states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa, legislators appear to have decided that independent candidates for governor are not necessarily a good thing.

This week in Culiacán, Sinaloa’s capital, the state Congress approved legislation that will require gubernatorial candidates to gather the requisite number of signatures for their nomination within just 40 days.

That’s 50 days fewer than an independent needs to run for Senate, yet in both cases the aspiring politician must collect signatures from a number equivalent to 2% of registered voters.

In Chihuahua, they took a different approach: Congress gave approval to a restriction based on previous party activity: anyone who wishes to contest the governor’s seat as an independent must not have had any affiliation or connection with a political party for a period of three years prior to election day.

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