Mexican election too close to call at campaign's end

CBC(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) ^ | June 30, 2006

[Dane]

Mexican voters will head to the polls on Sunday, with the bitterly contested race to replace President Vicente Fox in a dead heat.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City and Felipe Calderon, once Fox's energy minister, are virtually tied, the most recent polls suggest.

It will be just the second democratically held national election since the country's transition from a one-party state.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party, under a succession of names, governed the country from 1929 until Fox was elected in 2000. Its candidate, Roberto Madrazo, is currently third in the polls.

Both Obrador and Calderon held massive rallies Wednesday, the last day of campaigning before the period of reflection that Mexican electoral law dictates

[Dane]

Tomorrow is election day in Mexico. Does anybody know when the polls close and how long it takes to count the votes.

All I know about the different parties.

PAN(Calderon)center-right
PRD(Oblador) extreme left

Also can we please keep the yahoo comments(i.e doing the voting Americans won't do, yada,yada, yada) to a minimum.

Hey maybe there is a Mexican Freeper out there who would like to comment, but I can understand his or her reticence of posting on FR.

[umgud]

If Oblador is elected, what kind of power would he have? Are there lefties in the Mex congress or would he be twisting in the wind?

[goldstategop]

In the old days, the PRI's candidate would always win. Whatever happens on Sunday, Mexico is set to get its second non-PRI President.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[goldstategop]

Mexico's President used to pretty much call the shots. That's changed with the transition to a multiparty system. Now he has to work with Congress to get his measures passed and Congress is no longer a presidential lapdog as it was in the heyday of PRI hegemony over the Mexican state.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[Dane]

Well Fox had a majority PRI Congress and they hampered him.

Have no idea if there will also be Mexican Congressional elections tomorrow.

[SAJ]

Is this election simply ''most votes wins'', or is there a run-off if no candidate achieves a majority?

[Dane]

Is this election simply ''most votes wins'', or is there a run-off if no candidate achieves a majority?

Yes, I believe most votes wins and there is no run off.

[LdSentinal]

I was watching Red Dawn yesterday, and Mexico going Marxist was a precursor to the Soviet invasion.

[Sometimes A River]

I cannot imagine anyone worse than Fox, being that sending illegals north was his official policy.

All I care about is which os the canddiates would do the most to limit illegal immigration?

Extreme leftists (communists) usually do like like emigration, therefore Obrador may be the best choice.

[AdvisorB]

"If Oblador is elected, what kind of power would he have? Are there lefties in the Mex congress or would he be twisting in the wind?"

If Obrador pulls this out, all of Mexico will be twisting in the wind. It will make today's Mexico seem like a paragon of stability and success.

[chilepepper]

obrador will be another lazaro cardenas, the "beloved socialist leader" of mexico who nationalized the oil industry in the 1940's, and set up the mess mexico is in now.

think of obrador as a slightly milder hugo chavez, about the same level as evo morales but in a position to do *real* damage to mexico (and to us as a side effect)

[WOSG]

"I cannot imagine anyone worse than Fox, being that sending illegals north was his official policy. ":

Wait until they elect the Chavez-Castro wannabe from the PRD.
Yes, it could be worse. Pray for a PAN victory.

[LdSentinal]

If Obrador wins, there would be more people heading north to the border; he won't do anything about them because they didni't vote for him in the first place.

[Dane]

Extreme leftists (communists) usually do like like emigration, therefore Obrador may be the best choice.

Yeah that's why the Communist Russians built the Berlin Wall so there thier people could leave the "workers paradise" with only minor hindrances such as minefields and rifle towers(/sarcasm).

[Berlin_Freeper]

"Mexican election too close to call at campaign's end"


The Left press wants to do a replay of their 2004 fake exit polls so they can test what went wrong for them and help to steal 2008.

[Sometimes A River]

Do *not* like emigration, rather.

[saganite]

can we please keep the yahoo comments to a minimum.

Can we make google comments?

[Sometimes A River]

It can't get any worse than it is today, and Calderon promises "continutity"...

[Sometimes A River]

I am all for a rapid deteriroation in US/Mexican relations, considering the Fox/Bush record of the last 6 yrs...

[LdSentinal]

There would be bigger gush if the leftie wins.