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Mexico's next president will be chosen by the country's electoral tribunal, and he will carry the mandate not of the majority, but of the largest minority. Right now, the provisional result gives the job to Felipe Calderón of the ruling conservative National Action Party, by a...
1. The electoral tribunal could simply ratify the provisional results it released earlier, and name Calderón as winner. That would be legal, but might lack legitimacy in the eyes of much of the population, whose skepticism is fueled by a longstanding tradition of electoral fraud. Calderón...
There also could be political obstacles. The question of who can be called as a witness?and possibly give embarrassing testimony about former Khmer Rouge members still in government?is acutely sensitive. Officials have also said that only a handful of the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders would stand trial...
The swearing-in on July 3 of 25 genocide-tribunal judges and prosecutors was a historic step toward justice for the estimated 1.7 million Cambodians killed under the Khmer Rouge. But the real work starts this week, when U.N. co-prosecutor Robert Petit begins building a case against those responsible...
There also could be political obstacles. The question of who can be called as a witness?and possibly give embarrassing testimony about former Khmer Rouge members still in government?is acutely sensitive. Officials have also said that only a handful of the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders would stand trial...