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Election in Mexico
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On July 2, 2006, voters went to the polls to select a president, legislators, three state governors and the mayor of Mexico City. While Felipe Calderon was declared presidential winner, runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador contends there were irregularities in the vote count.
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The runner-up in Mexico's presidential election hopes Sunday's rally will highlight the public's backing of his demand for a recount.
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A federal grand jury in Washington indicted a Chinese Mexican businessman on charges that he conspired to help in the production of methamphetamine destined for the U.S.
ELECTION IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY — If his narrow victory withstands a promised legal challenge, Felipe Calderon will take office as a weak president of a Mexico more bitterly divided than at any time in nearly a century.
ELECTION IN MEXICO
Lopez Obrador allies gather at the electoral institute in the capital to protest the result. Calderon's camp sees them as sore losers.
Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon appeared close to victory today in Mexico's presidential election, but leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would not yet concede defeat.
Mexico's leading presidential candidate, the leftist former mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, lives in a 1,500-square-foot apartment in the heart of the city's university village.
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