Word: clouthier
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...delayed final tabulation of the July 6 presidential ballot. As expected, the victor was Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), with 50.36% of the 19 million votes cast. Cardenas, the leftist opponent, finished with 31.12%, and the challenger on the right, Manuel Clouthier, received 17.07%. Two minor candidates accounted for the rest of the total. Final returns in voting for the Chamber of Deputies gave the P.R.I. 260 of the 500 seats, well short of the two-thirds plurality required to make constitutional changes. In the Senate, Cardenas' forces captured four...
...P.R.I., which has always taken at least 70% of the presidential vote, turned in its worst performance in 59 years. But opposition candidates were not satisfied with the returns. Last week Clouthier filed criminal charges against the National Registry of Voters, alleging that it had conspired to help steal the elections. Cardenas, meanwhile, staged a protest rally on Saturday in Mexico City, where he had outpolled Salinas by a sizable margin...
...percent of the vote in elections--usually through bribes and electoral fraud. It was tentatively reported that Salinas had captured only 41.8 percent of the vote. Cuauthemoc Cardenas, the candidate of a leftist coalition, received 34.9 percent of the vote, and the right-wing National Action Party's Manuel Clouthier gained 16.4 percent of the population's favor...
...election that will choose the country's leader for the next six years, is certain to prevail. But the P.R.I.'s 59-year monopoly of political power is being challenged as never before, by Cardenas and also by the right-wing National Action Party (P.A.N.), led by Manuel Clouthier. Says Political Scientist Jorge Castaneda: "No matter what form the democracy of this country will take, the next government will have to take the opposition into account...
Change is also the theme of the campaign led by Clouthier, 54. At P.A.N. rallies supporters chant "Si, se puede" (Yes, it is possible) as if it were a hymn; T shirts bear slogans like MY STRUGGLE IS FOR DEMOCRACY; and posters ; call for reforms that include, often on the same placard, the abolition of corruption, the national debt, inflation and pollution. At a recent rally in Mexico City, speakers emphasized that P.A.N.'s support crossed class lines. But there were few Indian faces among the thousands present, and gold crosses and religious medallions were worn conspicuously along with designer...