Mexico candidate vows vote fight

BBC ^ | 07-06-2006 | BBC

[sergey1973]

Mexico's centre-left presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he will challenge the outcome of Sunday's presidential election. He spoke as the almost complete results gave a razor-thin victory to his conservative rival, Felipe Calderon.

Mr Lopez Obrador said he would appeal to the courts, and urged his supporters to rally in Mexico City's main square.

The results came after electoral officials worked around the clock to verify ballots from the 2 July poll.

[garbageseeker]

Obrador is organized and charismatic,he probably has support from nut cases such as Chavez and Castro,and he has a loyal base to work with. Sounds like a revolution in the making.

[BillyBoy]

>> That's actually not true. PAN is center right, with a stong nationalist and pro businesses bent <<

Really? Coulda fooled me with their last candidate:

SADDAM HUSSIEN LOOKALIKE VICENTE FOX:
-- Supports univeral government funded education
-- Supports univeral government funded health care
-- Supports the welfare state in general
-- Supports more illegal immigration
-- Supports abolishing the death penalty
-- Supports more criminal "rights" (he's even against life in prison for convicted killers!)
-- Supports more anti-gun laws
-- Supports envirowacko "cause"
-- Supports U.N.
-- Opposes traditional marriage laws
-- Opposed Iraq War

[El Gato]

-- Supports univeral government funded education -- Supports univeral government funded health care -- Supports the welfare state in general -- Supports more illegal immigration -- Supports abolishing the death penalty -- Supports more criminal "rights" (he's even against life in prison for convicted killers!) -- Supports more anti-gun laws -- Supports envirowacko "cause" -- Supports U.N. -- Opposes traditional marriage laws -- Opposed Iraq War

I never said he was conservative in the modern sense.

BTW, he doesn't support illegal immigration into *his* country, just ours. He's a politician like any other, and a statist. But he's still much better than the virtually communist Lopez Obrador.

[ncountylee]

Mexico's centre-left presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Center-left my butt, this clown is a Marxist hard liner.

[monkapotamus]