Mexico's Lopez Obrador Vows Continued Campaign vs. Election Fraud Tim Pelzer - People's World
go to original September 6, 2012

Mexico's center-left presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said he will not recognize a ruling by the top electoral court that the July 1 Mexican presidential elections were fair and clean.

The Judicial Electoral Tribunal on August 30 rejected a request by Lopez Obrador's left-wing coalition, consisting of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Labor Party (PT) and Citizens' Movement, that the July 1 elections be annulled. The request was made after evidence emerged of massive fraud and illegal vote buying by right-wing presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).  

The court ruled that the left-wing coalition did not provide adequate proof to annul the elections and said there was no evidence that the PRI bought 5 million votes or used polls to manipulate elections results. The court also ruled that the PRI did not use pre-paid Soriana or Monex cards to buy votes.     

The court ruled that the final adjusted total for all candidates was 50,143,616. Peña Nieto of the PRI got 19,158,592 votes and Lopez Obrador got 15,848,827, a percentage point spread of 6.62. This represents a slight reduction of the total vote of both of the leading candidates from the totals originally given out by the Federal Electoral Institute.

The two other presidential candidates fell far behind: Josefina Vazquez Mota of President Calderon's National Action Party (PAN) got 12,732,660, and Gabriel Quadri of the New Alliance got only 1,236,000.

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