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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2006 
PRD´s Sabines to Recognize Calderón
 The Herald Mexico
| | Sabines Guerrero |
Andrés Manuel López Obrador´s bid to de-legitimize the upcoming presidency of Felipe Calderón received another setback Thursday when the governor-elect of Chiapas said he will recognize Calderón as president and work with him.
Sabines, a recent convert to López Obrador´s Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), distanced himself from the PRD´s campaign of resistance against Calderón, who won the July 2 election against López Obrador.
"I´m a modern politician from a new generation that promotes agreements," Sabines said. "I don´t believe in confrontation."
Sabines´ position echoed that of several other PRD governors, including Lázaro Cárdenas Batel of Michoacán and Zeferino Torreblanca of Guerrero, both of whom have pointed out that their states are overwhelmingly dependent on federal funds. Torreblanca said last week that refusing to recognize a sitting president would be "suicide," with his constituents paying the price.
Sabines voiced similar sentiments Thursday. "My only agenda is called Chiapas and to Chiapas I will dedicate the next six years," he said.
Sabines was in Mexico City Thursday at the headquarters of the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF, or Trife), where a partial recount of the Aug. 20 vote was taking place.
Sabines´ top opponent, José Antonio Aguilar of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had challenged the results in 565 voting stations, and the tribunal agreed to recount 214 of them. But with 188 of those stations recounted as of Thursday, Sabines´ lead had increased by 101 votes.
The PRD plans to continue with its civil resistance, still pledging to prevent Calderón´s inauguration on Dec. 1. The party´s leader in Mexico City, Martí Batres, announced Thursday that a PRD television station is now up and running at www.votoxvoto.org.mx. Later in the afternoon, the PRD issued a communication claiming that the site had been hacked.
Batres also announced that the PRD will occupy Paseo de Reforma again on Oct. 29, but this time for only a few hours to stage an automobile parade from the National Auditorium to the Zócalo. Batres asked supporters to decorate their cars as floats with an anti-Calderón theme. |
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