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Mexican Elections : AMLO’s People Not Backing Down

10:58 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics| mexico

17 Jul 2006

20050402elpepiint_13_I_SCO.jpgAndrés Manuel López Obrador and those that support him want one thing, a recount. This past weekend hundreds of thousands of people, more than the rally last week, gathered in the center of Mexico City, in the Zócalo, to demand an official vote by vote recount of the ballots from the Mexican presidential election. Some reports put the crowd , that contained people who came from as far north as Mexico’s border with the United States and as far south as the state of Chiapas, at over 200,000. While the election results have yet to be declared official by the Federal Electoral Tribunal, Felipe Calderón was declared the winner by less than 1 percent.

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1 Response to Mexican Elections : AMLO’s People Not Backing Down

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Jennifer Woodard Maderazo

July 17th, 2006 at 1:07 pm

Hate to say it, but a 200K turnout is pretty lousy.

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