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GUEST: Gilberto Lopez Rivas, Anthropologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City and a frequent contributor to La Jornada

Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal has announced the results of a partial recount in the presidential elections held earlier this year. The results do not erase the lead of ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon. However, the judges held off from declaring Calderon the winner. Supporters of the left-leaning candidate, former Mexico City Governor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had been holding nation-wide rallies and actions to protest the election results. Obrador’s party, the Democratic Revolution Party or PRD, immediately denounced the Tribunal’s decision. President Vicente Fox is due to leave office soon. Scheduled to deliver the last annual Informe, or State of the Union speech, of his six-year term in office, Fox never made it to the speaker’s stage in the Congress’s main chamber last Friday. Dozens of opposition members of Congress stood up in unison, then advanced toward and commandeered the stage. They were armed with photos of Mexico’s national heroes and protest banners, chanting, “Vote by vote!”, the rallying cry of Obrador’s supporters.

Read Gilberto Lopez Rivas’ article on the Mexican Elections:
http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=795&lg=en