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.
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.
Thanks for your excellent posts explaining the election ... and for calming my nerves when other freepers were implying Obrador was going to win (ugg!)
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.
That's a relief.
Now lets hope they accept the results quietly.
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).
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.
Joe Kennedy, "I buy the election but I'm not going to buy a land slide."
ROTFLMAO
Al Gore has opened the door for election fraud every time a liberal loses.
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