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...ruling conservative National Action Party, by a margin 243,934 out of 70 million registered voters (0.58%). Calderón is doing his best to talk and act as a president-elect, but the alliance backing the center-left candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claims its man won but the counting was crooked, and is demanding a ballot-by-ballot recount to prove their case. So, the outcome will be determined by how the electoral tribunal, known by its Spanish initials TEPJ, responds to the demand for a recount...
...TEPJ, which is empowered to make a binding decision on the outcome, and is required to do so by Sept. 6, agreed Thursday to hear proposals from each of the campaigns. Obrador's supporters have demanded a recount in the presence of magistrates, on camera, with representatives of all parties present - a process they estimate will take between 6 and 12 days. But the PAN insists that its man won fair and square, and flatly rejects a recount...
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...
...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...