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ELECTED. Felipe Calder?n, 43, conservative, Harvard-educated lawyer and member of the ruling National Action Party, as President of Mexico; beating leftist rival Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador by less than one percentage point; in Mexico City. L?pez Obrador, the Mexico City Mayor, has refused to accept the results of the hotly contested poll and vowed to challenge the vote in court, a move that could plunge the nation into an electoral crisis similar to the disputed U.S. elections...
...flamed into a crisis unlikely to be resolved before week's end, if then. With 96% of polling stations reporting after Sunday's balloting, fewer than 400,000 votes (about 1% of the total) separate the leader, Felipe Calder?n of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), and Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Federal election authorities call that margin too thin to announce a winner before a more detailed count can be completed - but both Calder?n and L?pez Obrador wasted no time last night declaring victory. "We won the election without a doubt," Calder?n told...
...lived for the better part of? a century under one-party rule, is a traditionally conservative country. The Harvard-educated Calder?n, 43, who appears to have garnered about 36% of the vote, campaigned on promises to stay the course of Mexico's modest market-driven economic growth. But L?pez Obrador, 52, the former mayor of Mexico City, narrowly led voter polls going into last weekend's election because he insisted that the nation's economic gains have only served large monopolies, and the grinding poverty that afflicts half of?Mexicans forces them to cross illegally into the U.S. in search...
...many in the L?pez Obrador camp, the delay brings back the specter of the 1988 presidential election, when the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was declared the winner over the PRD candidate after a suspicious ?breakdown? of vote-tallying computers. Most Mexicans today believe a massive fraud was committed that year, and documents recently revealed largely bear that out. So, because L?pez Obrador's campaign challenged powerful economic interests - and because Calder?n's campaign painted L?pez Obrador as the like of the hemisphere's left-wing bogeyman, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - PRD loyalists may cry fraud...
...those same supporters can also thank L?pez Obrador's own authoritarian bent for helping to whittle away the lead he enjoyed during the campaign. Though he is hardly as radical as Chavez - as even Wall Street bigshots concede - he often sounded sufficiently messianic and self-righteous on the stump to alienate swing voters located somewhere between the poor he champions and the middle-class. Calder?n took his own big hit with voters last month when it was revealed that while he was Energy Secretary, his brother-in-law received a pi?ata of lucrative, energy-related federal contracts...