Posts Tagged ‘elections’
Mexican Elections: Recount favoring AMLO
7:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · Comments Off
5 Jul 2006
La vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida, ay Dios
Oh, what a difference a day — and a recount — makes. Mexican and international press is reporting that the official recount has put PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the lead over opponent Felipe Calderón, who had just a day ago seemed to be the victor in this race, full of all the twists and turns of a telenovela.
According to Spain’s El País, reporting a little over an hour ago:
The recount of the 42.79% of the votes from the Mexican presidential elections of last Sunday yields a 2.62% lead to leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, according to an announcement by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). IFE sources have also clarified that while this would put López Obrador at 37,00% and conservative Felipe Calderón at 34,38%, it is still not possible to confirm definite trends.
Mexican Elections: 3 million “missing” votes
2:40 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · 4 Comments
4 Jul 2006
While it was everyone’s sincere wish that this year’s Mexican presidential elections come off without a hitch, it was not to be. While the IFE waits until Wednesday for a vote-by-vote count, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the liberal PRD party’s candidate for president (and current second place candidate, according to his opponent) says that this year’s election is anything but “regular”. If fact, it seems it’s looking looking a bit chueca. As in 3 million missing votes:
Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he doesn’t know what the PREP (Programa de Resultados Electorales Preliminares, Preliminary Electoral Results Program) numbers are since, he charged, that the program has been manipulated since the beginning and that it contains and infinite number of inconsistencies that are working against him, among them less records of votes than those which he actually obtained, the existence of 3 million “lost” votes, and the fact that records for the presidental election and the delegates/senators election don’t match up.
Mexican Elections: Wait until Wednesday
3:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · Comments Off
3 Jul 2006
That’s what Mexican press is reporting:
14:50 Elements of the Mexican army will hold the electoral packets in the 16 federal districts until Wednesday, when the vote-by-vote count will begin, according to electoral consultant Luis Garibi Harper.
Via / El Universal
Photo via tiquis_magallanes’ Flickr page
Calderón still claiming victory in Mexico elections
1:12 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · 1 Comment
3 Jul 2006
The morning hasn’t brought us definitive results in the Mexican presidential elections, but more of the same. PAN candidate Felipe Calderón is still claiming victory and tells his supporters and the press, according to newspaper Reforma: “Announce that we have won”.
Meanwhile liberal party (PRD) candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that “he will accept the results of the IFE (Federal Electoral Institute) if there is enough proof to ratify” said results, reports Reforma.
Left-wing La Jornada isn’t giving up that easily and still reports the election as undecided.
Stay tuned into VL as this story develops.
Image via Reforma.com
Photo via tiquis_magallanes’ Flickr page
Mexico Elections: Still no clear winner
1:55 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · 1 Comment
3 Jul 2006
It’s nearly 11:00 pm on the west coast of the U.S. and after much angustia it seems there is still no clear victory in the Mexican electiosn. Fellow bloggers on the Latin Americanist blog have been following election day blow by blow and most recently had both candidates declaring victoria:
12:30am- Now FC just spoke publicly from his campaign headquarters and he cited individual exit polls that show him as the winner “from the time the first poll was redacted until now”. Like AMLO, he has declared himself as the winner.Here’s hoping this doesn’t get as ugly as the mudslinging during the campaign
12:25am- AMLO just finished speaking at a news conference and declared himself the winner based on the results from exit polls.CNN reports a tense tie. The BBC too. I guess we won’t know until we wake up tomorrow, and hopefully for sure then. After literally years of speculation, it will be nice to finally have an outcome, no matter what it is. My biased last wish tonight is that Mexico lean left (though whatever happens, the PRD’s apparent victory in DF is good news).
For up to the minute results, keep your eye on Mexican press such as El Universal. I’m loving the “throw your hands in the air” photo (above) they are using on their web site to illustrate the dual declaration of victory.
Via / The Latin Americanist
Deep in the heart of Texas: How do we get them to vote?
3:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · Comments Off
20 Jun 2006
That’s what Latino leaders are asking themselves, and why they will be convening in Dallas this week. The issue of boosting the Latino vote is a huge one, and if Latino turnout is finally increased, it’s anyone’s game to win or lose. Who will get the Latino vote, the Democrats or the Republicans?
More than 1,500 elected Latino leaders from across the nation will come to Dallas this week to discuss issues such as how to boost Latino voter registration and turnout, officials said.The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials will host its 23rd annual convention in Dallas for the first time Thursday through Saturday. The association chose Dallas to “showcase a city where phenomenal political progress is happening,” Executive Director Arturo Vargas said.
Mexican celebs: Vote or shut up
5:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Marketing|mexico|Politics · 1 Comment
13 Jun 2006
With the Mexican elections just a few weeks away, the campaign to get voters out to the polling places — especially young voters — is heating up. “Tu Rock es votar”, an organization whose mission is to do just that has created a pretty compelling campaign online, on TV, on the radio and in print which relies on the power of celebrities to encourage young people to get out and vote. The tagline: “Si no votas, cállate” (If you don’t vote, shut up). The tagline is the main part of a larger message which says: “We all complain…how many of us vote? If you don’t vote, shut up. On July 2nd, don’t let anyone decide for you”.
Freddy Blames His Guayabera
8:00 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City|Newspapers|Politics · 1 Comment
7 Dec 2005
It’s been over a month since the New York City Mayoral election and I have one message for losing Democrat Freddy Ferrer and his camp: let it go. Roberto Ramirez, advisor to the once Bronx Borough President, said that a Sunday Times Magazine picture that showed Freddy wearing a guayabera and Mayor Michael Bloomberg wearing a suit, made Freddy look like a stereotype. According to a Village Voice article
A Ferrer aide explained that the candidate had gone to the Times photo shoot in a suit and changed into the guayabera afterward because he was heading to a parade. The photographer asked him for quick shots as he was leaving.
Latinos Asking Freddy : Que Paso?
8:36 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City|Politics · Comments Off
17 Nov 2005
The mayoral race may be over in New York City, with billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg winning over Rican Freddy Ferrer by 20 percent, but Latinos and other Democrats are still talking with the next election in mind and wondering que paso? The heavily Latino borough of the Bronx, which Freddy once ran as Borough President, was the only section of the city that Ferrer won.
Some blame the former candidate Ferrer, saying he didn’t really reach out to the community, didn’t play up his “Latinidad”, and most importantly didn’t really represent the values of the grassroots community. Some actually blame the community, saying that Latinos and Democrats overall gave Freddy lukewarm support at best. The answer probably is somewhere in between.
There hasn’t been a person of color in NYC’s City Hall since David Dinkins and Latino names like current Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion are being tossed around for the next election, four full years away.
What Latinos and all people of color and working class people need to decide is what values people want running this diverse city, not what color he is or what accent his last name has.
Via / The Village Voice and WBAI(audio file).
Costa a Costa: NYC Bloomberg beats Ferrer by 20%
9:01 am By Maegan La Mala · Uncategorized · Comments Off
9 Nov 2005Hola!
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