Voting Irregularities Reported in Almost all Mexican Constituencies Prensa Latina
go to original July 17, 2012

The Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (Tepjef) received on Tuesday 356 reports of irregularities in the Mexican presidential election, covering about 290 of the 300 constituencies in the country.

This figure exceeds the number of contested districts in the controversial elections of 2006, noted the magistrate Manuel Gonzalez, quoted by the newspaper La Jornada.

He noted that in these cases is not enough to simply claim irregularities, because they must be proven and the court is not a proper investigating body.

In an interview with the Judicial Channel, Gonzalez said that the recent elections were monitored, and in the case of virtual challenges legal issues must be clarified.

He insisted that the elections were exemplary, because they not only mobilized more than half a million Mexicans to staff the polling places, but also more than 50 million voted. The results of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) ratified the lead in the polls of the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Green Ecologist (PVEM), Enrique Peña Nieto.

IFE statistics confirmed that the coalition Mexico Commitment led by Peña Nieto, had 19,200,000 votes (38.21 percent), 3,329,000 more than the second place candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Progressive Movement.

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