The Mexican Senate passed very watered-out, yet still notable legislation regulating Mexican elections: While the current electoral code, elevated to constitutional rank a few years back, prohibits the intervention of public officials in electoral processes (remember Fox in 2006?), there was no actual penalty for doing so - as witnessed when Calderón was deemed to have done so in 2009. The new legislation institutes economic sanctions - fines worth from ten thousand to a hundred thousand days of minimum salary.
(IFE certainly backs the reform, which would have to be passed before July in the Chamber for it to function for 2012)
Yet given that the Chamber just took a far-from-well-deserved summer break, the reform will very likely remain in the freezer for the time being.
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