Aug 08 2006
Mexico Elections Controversy Continues
GUEST: Nadia Martinez, Policy analyst for Institute for Policy Studies
As part of the on-going controversy of Mexico’s presidential election, thousands of protestors led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the PRD, or Party of the Democratic Revolution, have occupied the center of Mexico City. Carrying banners with slogans such as “Vote by vote, poll by poll!” thousands of protesters blocked traffic on a boulevard outside the court. They have also taken over toll booths on three Mexican highways and are letting drivers pass through free of charge as part of their protest, now in its sixth week. Mexico’s Federal Election Judicial Tribunal voted for a recount of only 9 percent of the country’s ballots. According to the initial vote count, Lopez Obrador lost by a razor-thin margin to conservative candidate Felipe Calderon. He and his supporters want a full recount, not another election, which is the likely result if the election tribunal can’t declare an official winner by September 6th.
Read John Gibler’s article on Mexico’s Designer Uprising.
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