Posted on 07/02/2006 6:24:13 PM PDT by lauriehelds
Kieran Murray and Alistair Bell
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential election is too close to call between a leftist anti-poverty campaigner and the conservative ruling party candidate locked in a tie, a respected exit poll said on Sunday.
The extremely close vote raised fears of a political crisis if any of the main candidates challenge the results and call street protests.
Pre-election polls had showed Felipe Calderon of the ruling party and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-wing former mayor of Mexico City, in a virtual tie. Exit polls from Mexico's two main television station and the El Universal newspaper said they could not declare a winner.
El Universal said the race was between Lopez Obrador and Calderon. Neither of the TV stations mentioned Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century.
The Federal Electoral Institute was expected to announce official results at around 11 p.m. If it is unable to call a winner, Mexico could face days or weeks of legal wrangling and protests similar to the fight that followed the U.S. presidential election in 2000.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
Thanks, I did get around to learning more about the Zapatista Liberation Army and their masked leader Comandante Marcos.
According to what I viewed on Spanish language TV last night, they campaigned for Lopez Obrador.
Not good.
I remember when the uprising started in Chiapas... early '80s?
Your real-life understanding of the problem, on the ground and experiencing it, is NOTHING compared to the knee-jerk, uneducated, ignorant opinions of many on this thread!!! I mean, if you have a keyboard your opinion is paramount, facts be damned.
People here just don't understand how Left the PRD is -- in fact El Norte is listing the PRD and PT together as a votinc bloc. YOU know what this means but 5% or fewer of the people on this thread do.
That is no more a surprise than Al Jazeera campaigning for J F'ing Kerry.
I specifically remember the last foray by the Zapatistas -- I was in Nuevo Leon at the time.
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Actual | Actual % |
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Projected (by State) | Projected % |
Calderon (PAN) | 14,020,162 | 36.38% |
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14,251,608 | 36.42% |
Dinosaur (PRI) | 8,313,759 | 21.58% |
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8,452,343 | 21.60% |
Socialist (PRD) | 13,621,676 | 35.35% |
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13,807,222 | 35.29% |
New Alliance | 384,144 | 1.00% |
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391,116 | 1.00% |
Alternative | 1,085,756 | 2.82% |
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1,102,585 | 2.82% |
Write-in | 281,069 | 0.73% |
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285,366 | 0.73% |
Null Votes | 826,862 | 2.15% |
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839,362 | 2.15% |
Total | 38,533,428 |
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39,129,602 |
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Precincts Reporting | 128,680 |
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Total Precincts | 130,788 |
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PR% | 98.39% |
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then live off whatever was appropriated
(stolen might be the more appropriate term)
Now just waiting for Obrador's next move. Will he concede or take Mexico to the brink?
Anyone know if Obrador's people are still bottled up in the Zocolo?
I took a look at Obrador supporters last night (bandanas tied around face, clenched fists) and Calderon supporters (clean cut). Obrador's people look ready to rumble.
YESSSS..!!!
So.....
Mexico leftist vows to challenge Presidential vote
MEXICO CITY, July 3 (Reuters) - Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he will legally challenge results that show him losing by 1 percentage point to the ruling party candidate in Mexico's tightly fought presidential election.
Lopez Obrador told reporters he had found irregularities in preliminary official returns showing him with 35.34 percent of Sunday's vote compared with 36.38 percent for Felipe Calderon, with 98.39 percent of votes counted.
Election authorities are expected to confirm that result after a recount later this week.
Lopez Obrador told reporters he will take his complaint to election tribunals rather than call for street protests.
"We are going to take this to the corresponding legal authorities," he vowed at his campaign headquarters.
Ooops! More than a "few" precincts.
Yet, the puter projects Calderon's lead will go up a couple of tenths of a percent, and his absolute total lead will end up at about 435,000. Unless there was substantial vote fraud, that lead will stand.
To the brink.
Manuel Lopez ObraGore.
Very interesting. The south is very Indian ... some of it very dangerous to go into. I'm thinking Tehuantepec, Chiapas and further down. The people are very poor.
I even witnessed a near lynching myself during a political/union rally in Oaxaca many years ago although I must say Oaxaca teems with tourists.
Ha! Good one! Obregorons.
Dang! The blue parts are all the hot vacation spots!
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