Posted on 07/05/2006 8:43:27 PM PDT by nj26
Mexico undertook a tense official recount of its contested presidential election yesterday that with 83% of the vote counted showed a different outcome than Sunday's results, with populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador leading conservative candidate Felipe Calderón by a 36.5% to 34.7% margin.
The mixed results produced confusion and tension in Mexico. Mr. Calderon's National Action Party, or PAN, said it was still confident of winning the recount because most of the remaining districts were in areas the party had won. For instance, the preliminary count on Sunday showed that each major candidate won half of Mexico's 32 states. By late yesterday the recount had finished 80% of the count in the 16 states that Mr. López Obrador won, and just 57% in the other half, where Mr. Calderón won.
Mr. Calderón's campaign strategist, Juan Camilo Mouriño, said: "In the states where Felipe Calderón won, the [Party of the Democratic Revolution] are playing games to draw this out, questioning everything, making long speeches, and raising the same objections over and over," he told reporters. Mr. López Obrador's supporters said they were simply trying to assure a fair election count.
Until the recount, which could stretch to tomorrow, is completed, it will be difficult to predict the winner. Nevertheless, the early returns favoring the leftist took many by surprise. Mexico's IPC stock index slid 4.01% to 19514.62 points and the peso fell 1.56% to 11.2390 per dollar.
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If Lopez Obrador wins, there is likely to be a major monetary/economic crisis in Mexico, and we will be regretting not having that wall already built.
Too bad I don't subscribe to the WSJ now. I would have liked to finish this article.
We should seal that border tight then and declare a trade embargo with Mexico if Chavez,er um, Obrador is elected...
Don't forget Castro as well. The company I work for has a manufacturing plant in Mexico. Everyone I spoke with wants Calderon to win. They know their jobs will go up in smoke if Obrador steals the election. They call him the communist.
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Somehow, I get the feeling that we will not impose an Embargo of one of our Major Suppliers of Oil.
Very active election recount thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1660852/posts
I subscribe. I just Freep mailed it to you.
If that happens, it will play out like this: Obrador, who the underclass prefers and sees as the "reform" friend of the little man, will be ousted in a revolution, much like Francisco Madero, who was viewed the same way, was ousted in favor of those who are even further to the left.
My theory is that a fear of this scenario above is precisely what has kept the U.S. government from closing off the border. They view the border as the only release valve for the pressure cooker that is Mexico.
If the Mexican left is anything like the American left, once Calderon wins again, they will miraculously "find" a few thousand "lost" ballots, from every household pet, cemetery and future born children of the leftists.
I have yet to see a leftist win an election honestly.
What a farce. Corrupt democracy is worse than blatand dictatorship because it carries the false aura of legitimacy.
Sounds like a brand of perfume for commies.
No doubt.. the NY Times is already setting up the fraud.. in today's paper, there is a story about "mismarked" ballots... they had crayon-marked paper ballots but apparently some voters didn't understand the ballots, and voted for two candidates, etc.
I strongly anticipate the leftists will be clamoring to have those ballots reexamined for "voter intent." I am sure that the Broward County Democratic Party could send some assistants to the Mexican election board.
The NY Times never met a leftist candidate it didn't like.
It's a subscription site. It won't be on Bugmenot.
You mean Canada?
I tend to agree with you albeit cautiously. Calderon's statement today was unequivical that the tally would remain the same.
At the same time, I don't like what I see. Help!
Mexico is out Second Largest supplier of oil behind Canada.
Again, with $75.00 bbl oil I doubt the U.S. will stop importing oil from Mexico.
http://www.automotivedigest.com/research/research_results.asp?sigstats_id=1123
Looks like bugmenot.com won't work for wsj.com.
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