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...votes, or about one percent, the official count yesterday, with 100 percent of the electoral districts reporting, gave him a margin of 234,000 votes out of 41 million cast. The Federal Election Institute reported that Calderón received 35.9 percent of the vote to López Obrador??s 35.3 percent. López Obrador has declared that he will protest the results and had demanded a recount in the electoral courts...
Poire—who served on a panel studying the election with Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez—said that Lopez Obrador??s credentials on democracy were “ambiguous” because as mayor of Mexico City he at times ignored the mandates of the local legislature, challenged the authority of the Mexican Supreme Court, and obstructed the operations of the renowned international anti-graft organization, Transparency International. But he hastened to add that comparing Lopez Obrador to Chavez is unfair—the former was not a military general...
...election, Calderón will need to gain more votes in Mexico City, Obrador??s stronghold, and in some rural areas, where a third candidate, Roberto Madrazo Pintado, has widespread support, according to Poire...
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