It’s not like he really went anywhere, but Andres Manuel López Obrador, the controversial leftist candidate defeated in Mexico’s very controversial presidential elections is back on the scene. He and his followers are marking the one-year anniversary of the elections by taking to the streets of Mexico City to protest President Felipe Calderon’s presidency:

The march ended with a speech by López Obrador in the Zócalo, center of the Mexican capital, in which the leader of the PRD asked that the deputies and senators of the opposition united and reject the fiscal reform proposed by government, according to Mexican Daily El Universal.

“It must be understood that we are opposing just to oppose. The right thing to do in our case is to not adhere to whatever the right-wing government’s policies are. Zero negotiation,” he said.

While “zero negotiation” may be his policy, but AMLO was quickly forced to end his protest of the elections when Mexico City’s citizens began complaining of all the congestion his “plantones” were causing. As for his attempts at a “parallel government”, I’d like to know how that’s going.

Via / 20 Minutos