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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2006 
Mexico Leftist Non-Committal on Election Ruling
 Reuters
| | Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate for the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), speaks at a rally to protest against the result of last weekend's election in Mexico City's Zocalo square July 8, 2006. (Jorge Silva/Reuters) |
The leftist candidate who lost last week's Mexican presidential election refused to commit himself on Monday to accepting a final court ruling on the results he says were rigged against him.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, has asked an electoral court to reverse conservative Felipe Calderon's narrow victory.
Lopez Obrador lost by less than a percentage point. He is also calling his supporters to take part in mass protests this week to call attention to his claims that the vote count was manipulated in Calderon's favor.
Party aides have said Lopez Obrador will accept the ruling by the Federal Electoral Tribunal even if it shows he lost fairly, but the candidate himself was noncommittal.
"We'll wait to see," Lopez Obrador told a news conference when asked if he would accept the court's decision. "We'll wait for the result," he said when asked the question again.
Lopez Obrador, an anti-poverty crusader, filed a legal challenge to the result on Sunday, claiming fraud gave victory to Calderon of the ruling National Action Party.
Lopez Obrador gathered more than 100,000 people in the capital's Zocalo square on Saturday. He has called supporters to converge on the capital from around the country this Wednesday and will stage another march in Mexico City next Sunday to protest the result. |
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