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There was no electoral fraud: Mexican Political Analyst Ricardo Alemán (Translation)
eluniversal.com.mx ^ | July 6, 2006 | eluniversal.com.mx (translated by self)

Posted on 07/06/2006 6:03:55 PM PDT by StJacques

The political analyst believes that López Obrador has seeded doubt about the election because he is not a democrat and does not know how to lose

The results of the district vote count and the triumph of Felipe Calderón are nothing more than the confirmation of those institutions which are solid, believable, and trustworthy; believes political analyst Ricardo Alemán.

Alemán believes that there was no electoral fraud against López Obrador, and affirms that the candidate of the For the Good of All coalition has seeded doubt about the election for one basic reason: because he is not a democrat and does not know how to lose.

In an interview with EL Universal.com.mx, the columnist for this publishing house said that, despite the fact that the candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has the right to challenge the election, he also posseses a great ignorance of electoral law.

"The IFE1 is not going to declare winners and López Obrador does not know that the results of elections are won at the ballot box, not in the streets."

With respect to the economic scenarios that are outlined for Mexico, the analyst considers that a climate of tension between the financial sector and external investors is being created.

"Tension which gives a very tight result indeed" he says.

A new political configuration is before the country, and this one is virtually divided into three parts (PAN, PRD and PRI). Alemán states that whoever wins will have to take the other parts into account.

"An integrated government is an urgent matter, be it a coalition or an alliance," Alemán affirms.

Nevertheless, pacts or alliances between parties are not always welcomed by their own groups or political actors. In fact, a tendency exists to disqualify these alliances. Is it possible to "De-Satanize" them?

"We ourselves forget that which has already happened in Mexico and which happened recently: after the '88 election PAN established an alliance with the Salinas government2, not just to legitimize it, but so that it could govern. That alliance was transferred to the Zedillo government3, not only in the Congress, we remember that it included the office of Procurator General of the Republic being given to PAN (Antonio Lozano Gracia) and other positions as well, in addition to the alliance in Congress."

"This is a practice that is already known in Mexico and which does not have to frighten us" he concludes.



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Translator's Notes:

1The IFE is the acronym for Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute, which certified the presidential vote.

2Carlos Salinas de Gortari of the PRI party, President of Mexico from 1988-1994.

3Ernesto Zedillo of the PRI party, President of Mexico from 1994-2000.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006; aleman; calderon; carlosrove; election; elections; lopezobrador; mexelectrans; mexico; pan; prd; president; stjtranslation; tooclosetocall
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To: freedumb2003
". . . For example, almost everyone has overlooked the fact that the Congress is now almost all PAN. . . ."

That was one of the articles I thought about translating:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/140204.html

At the time I found it the numbers were only 60% complete, but I did see that they held up.

A lot of people do not realize how much of a different legislative environment Calderon will face compared with that which Vicente Fox had to contend. Fox was blocked at almost every turn by the PRI in particular, who lost really big in the parliamentary elections in Mexico this past weekend. There's an article on "La debacle tricolor" that examines the changes, but does not go into any analysis as to why at:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/140222.html

I'm personally convinced the PRI has paid a very high price for its obstructionism and that they are going to have to ask themselves whether, in terms of forming a legislative agenda, they want to join the PRD -- which their historical traditions would suggest would be their home -- or the PAN, which common sense and moral values would suggest is where they would end up. I'm pretty sure they're talking it over among themselves right now, trying to set their price, because the PRI has never been about anything but selling out (forgive my bias).

But the debacle of the PRI is the other big untold story in this election.
21 posted on 07/06/2006 8:13:39 PM PDT by StJacques
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To: StJacques
trying to set their price, because the PRI has never been about anything but selling out (forgive my bias).

That ain't bias. When I was describing the PRI's ideology earlier today, I basically said "their ideology is power -- they appear to be Left because they give a lot away to pay their way to power."

But the debacle of the PRI is the other big untold story in this election.

This will be an interesting 6 years. Lets see if the new Prez can get the traction Fox couldn't get.

OTOH, we thought that having a Republican Congress and a Republican President would grease the skids for us and that hasn't worked out very well at all.

22 posted on 07/06/2006 8:28:49 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Let them die of thirst in the dark.)
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To: StJacques

Thanks for your excellent posts explaining the election ... and for calming my nerves when other freepers were implying Obrador was going to win (ugg!)


23 posted on 07/06/2006 11:44:46 PM PDT by WOSG (-)
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To: jocko12

Despite the talk(fear) of results like Florida and Washington State, note that in Florida both the starting and final margins were 1 or 2 per 10,000. In Washington State it was about the same. In Mexico now, it is 57 per 10,000, which is a huge diference when it comes to any kind of retallying or recounting.


24 posted on 07/07/2006 6:21:11 AM PDT by BohDaThone
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To: BohDaThone

That's a relief.

Now lets hope they accept the results quietly.


25 posted on 07/07/2006 11:10:16 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: bmwcyle

Yep, if they lose it's fraud (Gore FL, Kerry, OH). But if they win the election was perfect and the result never to be questioned (Gore NM, Kerry, WI, PA, NH, etc).


26 posted on 07/07/2006 11:15:03 PM PDT by SoCar (Get rid of Goober Graham!)
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To: bmwcyle
Hey, I've always wanted to sign up for DU and ask the simple question, if Republicans are so in control as to steal elections, why don't we steal them by much bigger margins? Why make them so close as to be questioned? Why just steal Ohio in '04 and not another "close" state to make their conspiracy theories harder? Why steal Mexico by such a small margin?

Heck if I was in control of Diebolt or Choice Point, or whatever, I would pad my candidate by huge unquestionable amounts. I would not leave it so close.

27 posted on 07/07/2006 11:20:57 PM PDT by SoCar (Get rid of Goober Graham!)
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To: SoCar

Joe Kennedy, "I buy the election but I'm not going to buy a land slide."


28 posted on 07/08/2006 7:42:01 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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To: bmwcyle

ROTFLMAO


29 posted on 07/09/2006 5:03:32 PM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: StJacques

Al Gore has opened the door for election fraud every time a liberal loses.


30 posted on 07/09/2006 5:04:11 PM PDT by ladyinred (The NYTimes, hang 'em high!)
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To: ladyinred
"Al Gore has opened the door for election fraud every time a liberal loses."

Yes he has ladyinred. And I would argue further that he done more damage than that. Taking my cue from another Freeper who posted this in either this or another thread, the whole world looks to the United States as an example of how democracy should function and now the whole world sees election results as only the first step towards determining an eventual winner.
31 posted on 07/09/2006 5:49:06 PM PDT by StJacques
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