Mexico's electoral agency gives govrerning coalition 73% of seats in Congress, with 60% of votes

Mexico’s electoral institute has voted to give the governing Morena party and its allies about 73% of seats in the lower house of Congress, even though the coalition won only about 60% of the votes in the June 2 elections. The ruling Friday would give the governing party the two-thirds majority it needs to change Mexico's constitution. The ruling can be challenged in the courts. Critics claim it will give Morena more power than it won at the voting booth. Mexico assigns some seats on the basis of proportional representation. That was designed to give smaller parties some seats in Congress if they couldn't win congressional district races. But the law also stipulates that the proportional seats can’t be used to give any party a majority in Congress.