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...stark contrast, López Obrador, the candidate of the Revolutionary Democratic Party, promised to increase social spending through a massive public works project that he said would create jobs...
...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...
...also said that even though Lopez Obrador drew most of his support from the poor and working classes, “there is a very good argument for Calderón’s approach” to helping the poor because inflation and sluggish economic growth often hurt the poor the most. This notion was seconded by Frankel, who said that “what Mexico’s poor most need now is what the rest of the country needs too: strong and sustainable economic growth...
...underlying debate on economics aside, the campaign was tarred by sharp negative attacks, including suggestions by the Calderón campaign that Lopez Obrador is another incarnation of Venezuelan President Hugo R. Chávez, the left-wing former general who has become one of the U.S.’s strongest opponents in Latin America...
...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, did not stage a coup, and, in fact, came up through the ranks...