Amlo calls decision to disqualify candidates ‘a blow to democracy’

Mexico's electoral tribunal upheld ruling barring two candidates, including one accused of rape, for failing to file expense reports

Mexico's president has blasted a decision to disqualify two of his party's gubernatorial candidates - including one accused of rape - describing the decision by Mexico's electoral tribunal as a blow to democracy".

Democracy is respecting the will of the people," said Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as Amlo, at his morning press conference on Wednesday. In a democracy, it's the people who decide. It's the people who give orders."