Calderon's presidential airs irk leftist

[cal04]

Conservative Felipe Calderon is acting more like Mexico's president-elect every day, preparing a transition team and announcing plans for a national tour despite efforts by his rival to overturn the election results.

Calderon's presidential airs are infuriating leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who says the July 2 presidential election was fixed and has presented Mexico's top electoral court with evidence, including videos, he says show vote fraud.

"Nobody is going to accept a step back from democracy," Lopez Obrador said late Tuesday in an interview on Mexico's Televisa network. "I won the election, without a doubt."

An official count last week gave Calderon a 0.6 percentage point margin of victory over Lopez Obrador, but the Federal Electoral Tribunal must still rule on the fraud allegations before the win is official. It has until Sept. 6 to decide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_elections_126

[frylock]

1. deja-vu all over again..

this is straight from turd blossom's playbook.

[rucky]

9. and they make them so darn close...

just to rub it in the faces of people in the know.

Then there's the issue of the media...

[fasttense]

2. Hmm, I've been wondering why foreign observers have been silent

about the vote rigging.

"Lopez Obrador also claimed some of his Democratic Revolution Party's poll watchers were bribed not to denounce fraud, and criticized foreign observers who described the elections as clean. "They observed, but they didn't see," he said."

[malaise]

3. I posted this on another thread.

http://70.103.140.131/~cohaorg/?p=196

[Jeanette in FL]

4. Greg Palast's report from Mexico, DemocracyNow, excellent

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/146201

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Florida Con Salsa: Investigative Reporter Greg Palast Reports on Voter Fraud in Mexico's Presidential Election

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In Mexico, populist candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador released a preliminary video yesterday of what he says proves he was cheated out of last week's presidential election. In a video shot in the central state of Guanajuato, the footage shows an apparent supporter of Calderon's National Action Party stuffing a ballot box on the day of the elections. Investigative reporter Greg Palast travels to Mexico City to report on the disputed election.
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We turn now to the Mexican presidential elections. Last week, election authorities announced that conservative candidate Felipe Calderón, a former energy minister, had defeated Andres Manuel López Obrador by a razor slim margin. This was after electoral officials recounted ballot tallies from the initial vote. The recount showed that Calderon won the presidency by the closest margin in Mexico's history - around two-hundred-twenty-thousand votes of forty-one million cast - or just over half a percentage point.
But Lopez Obrador has refused to concede citing electoral fraud. On Sunday, Lopez Obrador and his supporters filed a request for a full vote-by-vote recount of the election. They have also called for supporters to begin marching on the capital today and to join up for a huge march in Mexico City on Sunday.
Yesterday, Obrador released a preliminary video of what it says proves he was cheated out of last week's Presidential election. In a video shot in the central state of Guanajuato, the footage shows an apparent supporter of Calderon's National Action Party stuffing a ballot box on the day of the elections. Mexico"s Federal Electoral Court will review the case, which includes videos, campaign propaganda and electoral documents. The court has until September 6 to declare a winner. Meanwhile, yesterday Felipe Calderon announced his plans for a victory tour through Mexico.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast was in Mexico City to cover the story. He filed this report.
• Greg Palast reports from Mexico City. Special thanks to Rick Rowely and Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Calderón won't live long enough to put on anything.

The citizens of Mexico are PISSED because they know he tried to steal the election. He better leave the country before he ends up hung from a tree by his gonads.

[SeattleRob]

6. I forget who said it =

but it's not the party who gets the most votes, it's the party who counts the votes
that wins.

[roamer65]

7. Stalin said it.

[dweller]

10. and when your brother

(in law) writes the software for the voting machines, it's a surefire win.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2717291#2717369

dp

[leftchick]

8. Hey AP!

why isn't Calderon a "rightist"? What a bullshit moniker.

[iconoclastNYC]

11. At least mexicans value democracy

Americans yawn and turn on the channel to Survivor.

[dogday]

12. Just like the shrubster, claim the victory

make it yours, even though it is not yet settled... :shrug: