Posted on 07/29/2006 5:36:12 AM PDT by vandymania
Lopez Obrador Rouses Supporters The runner-up in Mexico's presidential election hopes Sunday's rally will highlight the public's backing of his demand for a recount. By Sam Enriquez Times Staff Writer
July 28, 2006
MEXICO CITY — This week, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has declared himself president, threatened to close roads and airports with mass demonstrations, and accused the nation's electoral board of ignoring the law.
And the week's not over yet.
Sound bites from the 52-year-old leftist and former mayor have kept Mexico's presidential election at the top of the news in advance of a rally Sunday that his supporters say will draw more than a million people to the capital's main square.
Unofficial returns show he lost the July 2 presidential election by less than a percentage point to conservative candidate Felipe Calderon.
Lopez Obrador says that fraud, human error and a government conspiracy swung the election but that a recount would make up the 244,000 votes he's behind. The Federal Electoral Tribunal is considering the candidate's 836-page appeal and has until Sept. 6 to declare a winner. So far, there is proof of only scattered arithmetic mistakes.
Lopez Obrador is looking to Sunday's rally — his third since the election — as flesh-and-blood evidence that Mexicans believe his accusations more than claims by Calderon and the government that the election was clean.
"I am the president of Mexico," he told U.S.-based Univision on Wednesday. "I am absolutely certain we won the presidential election," he said on Mexico's Televisa network.
On Monday, he filed a lawsuit alleging the board of the Federal Electoral Institute failed to keep business interests from funding last-minute attack ads against him. "They don't act according to the law," he told the Associated Press on Thursday.
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...to the big lie, just like Mr. Gore taught him to (though surely gore's not the originator of this, the zenith of spineless pussyman tactics).
Anarchy is beginning to have its day.
SoreLoserManuel
Wow, he is going directly from candidate to dictator. I thought that took a few months?
"I am the president of Mexico..."
"No I'm the presdent of Mexico!"
"No I'm the presdent of Mexico!"
"No I'm the presdent of Mexico!"
"No I'm the presdent of Mexico!"
"No I'm the presdent of Mexico!"
... pan to crowd all standing up and shouting. Only one man stands still his head bowed. The real president of Mexico!
(tears welling up inside of me as a write....)
The Hugo Chavez School of Delusional Dictators has developed an accelerated course.
Senor Lopez-Obragore esta muy loco ...
Him and Gore can hold a summit.
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when this place hardly had 20,000 souls on it... gettin' so crowded around here you have to kick yer way into a thread, and fight your way back out again...
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A civil war in Mexico...One thing's for certain...The bad guys will win...
I can imagine alot of "sympathy" events here attended by a small percentage of genuine protestors and exploited largely by those who just wish to start trouble.
There is no honor on the left...anywhere. Rather than concede defeat with the hope of unifying a divided country, this Gorebot uses the potential destruction of his own country as a tool to seize power.
If he truly cared about his people, he would concede defeat, cite the closeness of the election and use that capital to shape the country's direction. He'd still have a voice nationally and the country could go about the business of the economic and social reforms needed to staunch the flow of it's people accross the border.
Illegal immigration hurts the US, but it also hurts Mexico. Until they find a way to provide their people a path from poverty to middle class status, they will never stray too far from third world status.
Actually, I've read that Mexicans who are residents in the US (but have Mexican citizenship and can vote there) voted pretty overwhelmingly for Calderon. Of course, that won't stop radical leftist Mexican groups (such as La Raza) from trying to stir up trouble and make it look as if Mexicans here support Obragore.
Incidentally, I read that that in some cases, the Obrador supporters harrassed voters in areas where a large turnout for Calderon was expected, attempting to scare them away from the polls, and also surrounded PAN offices. The Socialists in Spain did the same thing during the elections that put Zapatero in place right after the bombings. Mobs (all bearing identically worded and lettered signs) descended on PP headquarters in Madrid and a number of smaller cities, and also turned up in packs around polling places when the vote was held, dissuading voters (particularly elderly and women voters) from trying to get through to vote. This was virtually unreported in the US press, but reported in the Spanish press. It is interesting to see that the Mexican left used the Spanish left's pre-election techniques in an attempt to suppress the vote, and is now using Gore's post-election technique. They certainly learn from each other, and they are very uniform in their tactics.
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