Andrés 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
Jennifer Woodard Maderazo
July 17th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Hate to say it, but a 200K turnout is pretty lousy.