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Mexico's Calderon is president-elect: court draft
Reuters ^

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Mexico
KEYWORDS: amlo; calderon; mexico; obragore
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1 posted on 09/05/2006 10:12:47 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Talk radio has been saying that Obrador will 'prevent' him from taking office.


2 posted on 09/05/2006 10:18:03 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

Could get ugly (uglier).


3 posted on 09/05/2006 10:18:43 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (1 year guarantee against congenital defects.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I've heard that Obrador has a penchant for making a scene, picketing and parading with his homies all over Mexico City.


4 posted on 09/05/2006 10:19:47 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Lunatic Fringe

It doesn't really matter imo, Obragore will be creating a parallel gubamint and will have support&encouragement from other Central and South American regimes to do so.


5 posted on 09/05/2006 10:20:25 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

"Selected, not elected."

Here we go again.


6 posted on 09/05/2006 10:21:19 AM PDT by AmishDude (`[N]on-state actors' can project force around the world more easily than Canada". -- Mark Steyn)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Dear Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,

Boo Hoo Hoo.

Now get back to work, and quit whining.


7 posted on 09/05/2006 10:22:21 AM PDT by roaddog727 (Bullsh## doesn't get bridges built.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Ruh, roh!

8 posted on 09/05/2006 10:23:18 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Lunatic Fringe

The ILLEGALS aren't gonna like this. Oh well.


9 posted on 09/05/2006 10:24:01 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

The BBC has reported in their ticker that Calderon was declared the winner (by the seven people vote, apparently).


10 posted on 09/05/2006 10:25:00 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( Microevolution is real; Macroevolution is not real.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

The first thing Felipe Calderon needs to do is to arrest Obrador on the Mexican equivalent of inciting insurrection and put him on trial. They need to bring back the firing squad.


11 posted on 09/05/2006 10:25:08 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
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To: unixfox

Why should they care? They're all over here.


12 posted on 09/05/2006 10:25:19 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Lunatic Fringe

CNN radio is reporting that the Panel voted to uphold the preliminary Ruling. Calderon is now officially President-Elect.


13 posted on 09/05/2006 10:27:41 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

I don't think Lefties have lost an election anywhere since 2000 without crying 'fraud'.


14 posted on 09/05/2006 10:27:42 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (The Left hates America)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
BBC update.
15 posted on 09/05/2006 10:28:53 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( Microevolution is real; Macroevolution is not real.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Could get ugly (uglier).

Is Helen Thomas going to show up?

16 posted on 09/05/2006 10:29:49 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Let the games begin!


17 posted on 09/05/2006 10:32:53 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy (It's a fight to the death with Democrats.)
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To: Ben Mugged

Yes.


18 posted on 09/05/2006 10:34:09 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Let's see how Mexico's 'John Kerry' (sore loser) is going to handle this news. IF he does what he says he will do, could there be a civil war? :o)


19 posted on 09/05/2006 10:37:31 AM PDT by NRA2BFree (ISLAM IS A CULT OF DEATH AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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To: Froufrou
Why should they care? They're all over here.



Everyone there will give big CHEER!
Everyone there will have moved here.

--- "I Like to Be In America" (West Side Story)

20 posted on 09/05/2006 10:41:33 AM PDT by Graymatter (TV-free and clean for 3 years, 2 months.)
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