| Opposition to appeal against Mexico vote results |
MEXICO CITY The party of the leftist candidate who came in second in Mexico’s presidential election said on Sunday it would challenge the results, which gave a win to Enrique Pena Nieto, in the Electoral Court.
“We’ll go to the Electoral Court in the coming days, within the appropriate time frame,” said Jesus Zambrano, chairman of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, whose candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lost the July 1 vote. The Federal Electoral Institute on Sunday completed the full count of all ballots and confirmed a win for Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
It now falls upon the Electoral Court to address any dispute such as the one Zambrano promised.
Pena Nieto drew 38.21 per cent of the vote, trailed by Lopez Obrador with 31.59 per cent and the ruling National Action Party’s Josefina Vazquez Mota with 25.41 per cent.
Lopez Obrador also came in second in the 2006 presidential election, that time by the slimmest of margins — less than one percentage point.
He led protests that virtually paralyzed Mexico City for more than a month, claiming fraud in the contest in which outgoing President Felipe Calderon was elected.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Mexico City on Saturday against the presidential election win of Pena Nieto, accusing him and his party of widespread vote-buying.
Pena Nieto, 45, is scheduled to take office in December.
Agence France-Presse
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