Posted on 09/05/2006 10:12:45 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Conservative ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon won Mexico's ferociously contested July 2 election and is president-elect, the top electoral court said in a draft ruling on Tuesday.
Earlier on Tuesday, the court said Calderon had won with a margin of about 234,000 votes. In this latest draft ruling, the court said he could now be declared president-elect, the first time the election body has made this announcement.
The final, official decision is still to be voted on later in the day by a panel of seven judges, who have already thrown out leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's claims of massive fraud.
This whole proceeding in Mexico makes Bush v Gore look positively dignified.
History does repeat itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
Oh no. Now the illegals will be seeking political asylum from a Mexican government in turmoil...and they'll be granted amnesty here.
Glad we are in agreement.
I just see red when I read that we can't have democracy unless it can be done without fighting in the streets.
IMHO, if the democracy is not defended even to the point of "fighting in the streets", it will, of course, be lost because those trying to take the power away, will do whatever they have to do to get it.
And a little fighting in the street does not bother them in the least. Of course, they will play the propaganda option first to try and convince the population that violence is bad, that fighting wars is just not an option.
Why wouldn't they? Sure is easy to buy a few pacifists to parade around sprouting "no war", "no war". And, if the population can be convinced to defer their freedom until the day when both sides will agree to the will of the people, they have an easy win.
And the population will learn a hard lesson - "there are always those that will manipulate to steal power from the people". The only thing stopping them, is the power of the people willing to fight to keep their freedom and winning the fight.
My sincere hope is that if this does come down to armed conflict, that somehow people come out of it with a greater appreciation for how we do things uptown, and maybe they'll start to knock out some of the corruption.
I can dream, can't I?
Ewwwww.
Dreams are the planted seed.
The more I hear of the loss by Gorebrador, the more I think that the Snakehead must have been consulting. James has an unblemished record in these south of the border elections - his candidate has never won!
It's rather silly, first because the president is a citizen too and should have a right to an opinion (the people shouldn't feel pressed to vote for the president's pick, and that's not the way the PRI's frauds were done anyway) and second: Calderon wasn't Fox's favorite.
I have a friend who is here legally who would consider returning now that Calderon is President.
Good thing Jimmy Carter wasn't invited there to certify the results, 'cause ObraGore would be the president right now.
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