Electoral coalitions formed in Mexico
The Mexican Green Ecological Party (PVEM) has traditionally been a party of alliances. In the 2000 campaign it joined the National Action Party (PAN), when Vicente Fox won Mexico’s presidential election, although subsequently it was the first party to abandon the so-called “alliance for change.â€
That break with the government of President Fox was absolute, and since then it has moved “the greens†closer to the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in a strategy that has benefited both parties. Together they have since participated in, and won, 11 state elections; a simple majority in the Chamber of Deputies in 2003 (out of 500 seats, the PRI took 224, and the PVEM 17); and they beat the National Action Party (PAN) by more than 20 points in last July’s gubernatorial election in the State of Mexico, that is home to nearly 13 percent of Mexico’s voters.
It was Roberto Madrazo, when he was president of the PRI (2002 to November 2005), who led the move to close ranks with the PVEM. In fact, the two parties have had an alliance since 2003 for the midterm elections, yet each has been able to maintain their individual images and, in Congress, present their own legislative proposals.
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Statement by OAS Secretary General, Jose Miguel Insulza, on the Elections in Mexico
The decision taken by Mexicos Federal Electoral Institute to refrain from naming a winner until a recount of all the votes cast on Sunday July 2 can be made will prolong by several days the official announcement of a new President of Mexico.
This appears to be the only possible decision, given that the narrow results available at this time make it advisable to exercise utmost caution in order to respect the verdict of the citizens.
In this context, we congratulate all Mexicans for the exemplary manner in which they
Mexico government urges respect for law as electoral dispute continues
A spokesman for Mexican President Vicente Fox [official website, in Spanish; BBC profile] said Friday that citizens should show respect for the law as the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary [official website] continues to evaluate the results of the countrys contested July 2 presidential election [JURIST report]. Spokesman Ruben Aguilar [official profile] stressed the administrations decision to not interfere with the courts process and said the decision will be made in adherence to the law without any illegal pressure or blackmail efforts. Mexicos Federal Election Institute (IFE) [official website,
Mexicos electoral divide
If there isnt an agreed-upon translation for hanging chad in Spanish, it looks as if there soon will be. Mexicos watershed presidential election ended up tight as a tick, as Dan Rather would have said, and both stakes and passions are still so high that its hard to imagine either candidate backing down.
In fact, the race between free-marketeer Felipe Calderón and leftist-populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known in Mexico by his initials, AMLO) tightened considerably after the polls closed a week ago Sunday and the preliminary count showed Calderón winning by a margin of 1 percent. Inclusion of
In Mexico, a Class War Looms
The seven-judge panel known as the TRIFE, charged with deciding the legitimacy of Mexicos murky July 2 election and confirming the new president, is the nations court of last resort. What the judges decree is literally the last word, the end of the line; there is no appeal.
On September 5, the last day the Constitution mandated the TRIFE to rule on the most hotly contested balloting in Mexicos checkered electoral history, the judges pronounced their verdict: Outgoing President Vicente Foxs unconstitutional intervention in the electoral process on behalf of his handpicked successor, Felipe
Mexico promotes absentee ballot on U.S. TV
Mexico's electoral institute will use a 21-hour show on U.S. television on Wednesday to convince more Mexicans living north of the border to vote in next year's presidential election.
The July election will be the first time Mexicans living abroad will be allowed to cast absentee ballots, but as of November 22, only a little over 2,000 of 11 million Mexicans living outside their country had applied to mail in their vote.
The television show will be broadcast by Spanish-language network Univision in 24 U.S. cities, including New York; Miami, Florida; Houston, Texas; and Los Angeles,
2006, A Complex Year for Mexico
Mexico has begun a year that points to be a complex one on the political field with one of the most disputed electoral campaigns, while very discouraging economic predictions are raising people´s concerns.
The forthcoming July 2 general elections will undoubtedly draw national attention due to the impact that the polling will have in Mexico for the next six years.
The election campaign will formally begin on January 19 and according to polls, the candidate from the opposition Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will start from a leading position.
However, the PRD´s structural bases
Mexico: Lopez Obrador Will Not Accept Election Ruling Favoring Calderón
Mexicos top electoral court has thrown out allegations of massive fraud in last months presidential election, handing almost certain victory to conservative Felipe Calderón.
Leftist challenger Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the judges unanimous rejection of his complaints is offensive and unacceptable for millions of Mexicans. He vowed not to recognize a government led by Calderón and the ruling National Action Party.
The seven-judge Federal Electoral Tribunal reported it examined 375 challenges to the July 2 election, and discarded about one-half of one percent of the 41 million ballots, due to irregularities. The
Conservative has narrow lead in Mexico election chaos
A conservative former cabinet minister emerged as the narrow leader in Mexicos knife-edge presidential election today as the country tensed itself for an unsettling Florida-style recount.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist former mayor of Mexico with a devoted urban following, trails Felipe Calderon, a pro-business, former energy secretary, by just over 1 per cent or 400,000 votes, according to preliminary results from the Mexicos official Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).
But the margin of victory is too small to declare an official winner, so the IFE will begin a vote-by-vote count across Mexicos 300 electoral
Mexico uses athletes to promote absentee vote registration for 2006 elections
Mexican electoral officials announced on Friday that they have launched a campaign featuring well-known professional athletes to promote registration for absentee ballots by Mexican living abroad.
The July 2, 2006 elections will be the first time that Mexicans abroad will be able to request absentee ballots for a federal election; to do so, they must submit request forms by Jan. 15.
As part of the program, infielder Jorge Cantu of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Florida Marlins pitcher Ismael Valdes and San Diego Padres catcher Ramon Hernandez paid a visit
Coup D Etat in Mexico
A COUP DETAT IS BREWING in Mexico. Even as he runs out of legal ways to challenge the July 2 presidential election results, the contests sore loser, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is planning to proclaim himself president and establish a parallel peoples government on the national Day of Independence, Sept. 16.
The defiance by the leftist former mayor of Mexico City comes after a unanimous ruling Monday by the nations top electoral tribunal, which rejected claims filed by Lopez Obradors party of massive fraud. Lopez Obrador, who finished second in the balloting, has been waging an increasingly
