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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...
...Mexicans. Voters believed the election would not only decide who would run the country for six years but also, more fundamentally, what kind of political and economic system Mexico would have. The platforms of the two leading candidates--the conservative Felipe Calderón and the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador--differed on the roles of the state vs. the market, the nature of political institutions, how to fight poverty and what kinds of links Mexico should have with the rest of the world...
...afraid to die in the fight." --EMILIO SERRANO, member of Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador's leftist party, pledging protests after conservative Felipe Calderón apparently won last week's elections by just 0.58%--243,934 votes out of 41.8 million cast...
Kennedy School graduate Felipé Calderón Hinojosa was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, dispatching the leftist former mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after a tight race that was too-close-to-call until the official count was finished yesterday...
...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...