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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2006 
Mexico Presidential Race too Close to Call
 Traci Carl - Associated Press
| | Fox appealed for calm amid fears that a close result would raise the potential for violence. Some Lopez Obrador supporters have warned they won't accept his defeat if they think fraud might be involved. |
Mexico's presidential election was too close to call Sunday, with voters bitterly divided between a leftist offering himself as a savior to the poor and a conservative warning that his rival's free-spending proposals threaten the economy.
Officials said they wouldn't be able to declare a winner until later in the week.
Electoral officials said they could not release the results of Sunday night's quick count of the votes, which they previously said would happen only if the leading candidates were within one percentage point of each other. Luis Carlos Ugalde, president of the Federal Electoral Institute, said an official count would begin Wednesday, and a winner will be declared once it's complete.
Felipe Calderon, 43, of outgoing President Vicente Fox's National Action Party, had been running an exceedingly close race with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 52, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party. The Institutional Revolutionary Party's Roberto Madrazo, 53, had been trailing in third place.
Fox appealed for calm amid fears that a close result would raise the potential for violence. Some Lopez Obrador supporters have warned they won't accept his defeat if they think fraud might be involved. |
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