Lopez Obrador Backers Bar Entry to Exchange
Several hundred supporters of leftist presidential runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blocked the entrance to Mexico’s stock market, pledging to continue disrupting life in the capital until a court rules on their demand for a vote-by-vote recount.
Traders said the protests would not affect transactions, conducted electronically from brokerage offices. The market was operating at normal levels.
Official results from the July 2 election, which await the Federal Electoral Tribunal’s certification, gave an advantage of less than 1 percentage point, or about 240,000 votes, to conservative Felipe Calderon.
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