Coup D Etat in Mexico
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 desperate campaign to have the election nullified. The independent panel of seven electoral justices reviewed 9% of polling places where it had reason to suspect error, and it threw out tens of thousands of ballots.
The net result of the review was to reduce conservative candidate Felipe Calderons nearly quarter-million-vote margin by about 4,000 votes. The tribunal has until next Wednesday to certify the election results.
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