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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2006 
Mexican Court Approves Congress Vote Results
 Reuters
| | Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waits for his turn to speak in front of a blackened digital display in Mexico City, Mexico. (AP/Gregory Bull) |
Mexico City - Mexico's top electoral court rejected complaints about the July Congressional election on Wednesday, giving conservative candidate Felipe Calderon's party the largest stake in the legislature.
The electoral judges must declare a president elect by September 6 at the latest.
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lost the July 2 presidential vote by a hair and his Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, has challenged the result, alleging fraud.
His party had also contested some of the results of the Congressional election.
Calderon's ruling National Action Party will have 52 seats in the Senate, more than other parties but still short of a majority, the electoral court said.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century, will have 33 seats in the Senate, and Lopez Obrador's PRD will have 28 seats.
The PAN will have 206 seats in the lower house, with 123 controlled by Lopez Obrador's PRD and 105 held by the PRI.
For more than two weeks, Lopez Obrador's supporters have protested the election result by camping out in Mexico City's giant Zocalo square, the symbolic center of political power in Mexico, and along the city's central Reforma Avenue.
But most experts expect Calderon, who won the vote by less than a percentage point, to eventually become president. |
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