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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2006 
Mexican Protesters Sour Calderon's Homecoming
 Reuters
| | Demonstrators hold a banner of an image of Felipe Calderon and the word 'No' outside the federal electoral tribunal in Mexico City where Calderon was due to arrive to receive the certificate confirming him as the winner of the presidential elections September 6, 2006. (Henry Romero/Reuters) |
Angry protesters sabotaged a home-town public appearance by Mexico's president-elect on Friday in what may be a taste of resistance to his rule vowed by a leftist rival claiming election fraud, media reported.
Conservative Felipe Calderon, named president-elect this week after a court threw out fraud claims by his leftist rival, was to place flowers in a square in his home town of Morelia in western Mexico as a tribute to a celebrated independence hero.
But some 200 supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador flooded the square prior to the act, forcing him to put it off until later, said main national newspapers Reforma and El Universal, and Televisa, Mexico's main television channel.
A spokesperson for Calderon denied the protesters had forced postponement of the event, saying it had been put back for logistic reasons.
Former Mexico City mayor Lopez Obrador, who as candidate promised to lift Mexico's poor out of misery, has shut down much of the capital with protest camps since losing the July 2 vote and has promised to stop Calderon governing.
Attendance has declined at rallies for Lopez Obrador in Mexico's main square, where he is camping alongside protesters, but he has called a mass meeting to propose forming a so-called parallel government to resist Calderon's rule.
Calderon is set to replace ruling party colleague President Vicente Fox on December 1. |
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