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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2006 
López Obrador Alters His Strategy
 Associated Press
| | Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech to followers in Mexico City's Zocalo Square. (AFP/Luis Acosta) |
Mexico City - Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given up his efforts to have himself declared the winner of Mexico's presidential race, but he still plans to create a parallel government to cater to the poor and keep alive his fight against the president-elect, a party spokesman said.
Since Mexico's top electoral court rejected López Obrador's allegations of widespread fraud in the July 2 vote, he has focused on a Sept. 16 convention in which supporters will declare him the leader of a resistance government.
The plan is to block the president- elect, Felipe Calderón, at every step, including at his Dec. 1 inauguration.
"We are not going to let him take office," said Gerardo Fernández, spokesman for López Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party. He said he could not see what he called a "usurper government" lasting for six years.
Fernández said the parallel government would fight for recognition in international forums and orchestrate street protests against free-trade reforms and the privatization of government enterprises.
It also will set up an alternate capital, form a cabinet and set policy, Fernández said. Some of his followers have urged López Obrador to set up a treasury, but Fernández said there were no plans to do that, mainly to avoid legal problems.
López Obrador has irritated many residents of the capital with a monthlong, traffic-snarling blockade of Mexico City's main boulevard. The convention on Sept. 16 will decide whether to pull up the sprawling protest camps. |
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