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The stations of the Metro Collective System of Transport (STC), which come together in the downtown district, will not be closed but some interruption of circulation will become necessary. Starting at 1:00 p.m. [Saturday] the police operation will get underway, in which 750 officers of the units of Citizen Protection will participate, as well as the Rescue Squadron and Emergency Medical Services (ERUM)1, to protect the meeting which Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador has called for in the Zócalo capital plaza this Saturday. The monitoring authority will consider which interruptions of circulation are necessary; and in addition, all the stations of...

The AMLO campaign insider emphasizes that they are trying to count vote by vote to recover the legitimacy of last Sunday's electoral process The For the Good of All coalition is not trying to annul the presidential election, but only to count the votes and recover the legitimacy of last Sunday's electoral process, militant PRD member Manuel Camacho Solis indicated [today]. While presenting a brief talk in a "2006: Year of Elections, Year of Reflections" seminar at the College of Mexico, the field team member of presidential candidate Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador maintained that their party has decided not to...

Election observers exhort the IFE to make an effort in which the final result is clear and reflects the will expressed by the Mexican people. Venezuelan deputies who acted as observers in the Mexican presidential elections voted today to ask that the irregularities registered in the electoral process are corrected and that the will of the Mexican people expressed at the ballot box is respected. Luis Camargo, acting as spokesman for the group, indicated to the press that the irregularities committed in the scrutiny of votes are in the public domain in Mexico and originate, in his opinion, in non-automated...

According to the author, religion unites the country and the PAN representative appeared as the Catholic candidate. Renowned Mexican author Carlos Fuentes is not surprised by the close result in last Sunday's elections, since he asserts that it is a product of a tendency that occurs throughout the world; that politicians are drawn the center. In an interview given the day after the presidential election, the writer indicated that, though the country is divided, for the great majority the decisive factor was religion. --What does it mean for Mexico that Felipe Calderón, the candidate of the right, wins the election...

They will distribute a special edition of their internal publication "The Force of the Sun," in which the PRD argues reasons by which they consider that the Tabasqueño1 gained the Presidency The leadership of the PRD in the Federal District defined the first stage of its strategy to defend [its assertion of] the election of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador to the Presidency of the Republic. During a meeting led by the virtual head of their elected government2, Marcelo Ebrard, along with the State Executive Committee of their party, members were informed as to the outline of the tasks to follow...

The President of the IFE clarifies that the 3 million votes which the candidate of the For the Good of All coalition says were lost to them, are ballots which arrived at the Institute with inconsistencies, and that is the reason why, according to an agreement reached with the political parties, that these had to be put aside. Luis Carlos Ugalde, President Advisor of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), said that the three million votes which Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, [which claims] they lost the votes, are ballots which arrived at...

So reveals Leonel Cota Montaño, National President of the PRD and member of the commission, which will present inconsistencies in the PREP tomorrow Monday, July 3, 2006, 9:48 p.m. The "For the Good of All" coalition (PRD-PT) formed a political commission in their fight for the defense of the vote. Leonel Cota Montaño, National President of the PRD and a member of this commission, revealed that at midday tomorrow [the commission] will make inconsistencies in the [vote count of] the Program of Preliminary Electoral Results (PREP) known. Cota Montaño said that they are demanding that the IFE not use this...

Felipe Calderón has almost 14 million votes with 98.17% counted; "the fight has not finished", affirms [PRD Official] Martí Batres. Monday, July 3, 2006, 5:14 p.m. (Equivalent to Central Time U.S.) The national leadership spokesman of the Party of National Action (PAN), Caesar Nava Vázquez, demanded late today that the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) declare Felipe Calderón the winner of the presidential contest at 8:00 p.m., when the Program of Preliminary Electoral Results (PREP) ends. Caesar Nava stated that all "signals" indicate that Calderón surpasses the presidential candidate of the "For the Good of All" coalition, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador,...

The speech of the PAN candidate after the message of Luis Carlos Ugalde of 11:00 p.m. A very good evening . . . [to our lady] friends and [our male] friends, Mexican women and Mexican men, it gives me the greatest pleasure to salute you tonight. In this National Action Party and particularly as a [public] servant [I can say that] we have been scrupulous and respectful of the electoral processes and the decision of the citizens. We have also listened to the message of Doctor Luis Carlos Ugalde, President Advisor of the Electoral Federal Institute who has indicated that...

So affirms Carlos Aguiar Retes, Secretary-General of the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate, which at this moment cannot demand anything of López Obrador, who appears in second place in the vote count, and asks that he accept his defeat. The Catholic Church called on presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the leadership of the PRD for prudence, to not ignite the country and to respect the final loss that the Electoral Tribunal renders on Sunday's presidential election. In a press conference, the Secretary General of the Conference of Mexican Episcopate (CEM), Carlos Aguiar Retes, indicated that at the moment...

The political analyst believes that López Obrador has seeded doubt about the election because he is not a democrat and does not know how to lose The results of the district vote count and the triumph of Felipe Calderón are nothing more than the confirmation of those institutions which are solid, believable, and trustworthy; believes political analyst Ricardo Alemán. Alemán believes that there was no electoral fraud against López Obrador, and affirms that the candidate of the For the Good of All coalition has seeded doubt about the election for one basic reason: because he is not a democrat and...