Manuel Lopez Obrador
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14543502/
Mexican leftist candidate wins in volatile regionOfficial results give governor’s race to hopeful in Chiapas stateThe Associated PressUpdated: 11:44 a.m. PT Aug 27, 2006TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - The candidate of Mexico's top leftist force won the governor's race in the volatile southern state of Chiapas, edging a hopeful backed by President Vicente Fox's party by about 6,300 votes, electoral officials said Sunday.Following a tense, two-hour session, Chiapas' electoral council announced the official results from the Aug. 20 election, giving Juan Sabinas, of the Democratic Revolution Party, 553,270 votes, compared to 546,988 for Jose Antonio Aguilar, who was running with the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which controlled Mexico's presidency from 1929 until 2000.Institutional Revolutionary officials immediately said they would challenge the results in court.Aguilar, a 56-year-old former federal senator, was also supported by Fox's conservative National Action Party as the result of a last-minute alliance to try to defeat Sabines, a 38-year-old former Tuxtla Gutierrez mayor. He has claimed the election was tainted by government meddling, vote buying and other irregularities.If the Chiapas results are challenged legally, they could mirror Mexico's disputed presidential election from July 2 -- but with the roles of the leftist and conservative parties reversed.Initial presidential-election results gave National Action Party candidate Felipe Calderon a slight advantage of about 240,000 votes, or about 0.6 percent of all ballots cast, over leftist, former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.Lopez Obrador claims improper campaigning, illicit funding from the Fox administration and widespread electoral fraud swayed the election results in Calderon's favor. Meanwhile, National Action has filed its own challenges seeking to increase its candidate's tiny advantage.Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal is weighing the challenges and has until Sept. 6 to declare a president-elect or annul the vote.Thousands of Lopez Obrador supporters have set up a sprawling protest camps in downtown Mexico City, demanding a vote-by-vote recount they say will show their candidate was the presidential race's rightful winner.Addressing a large crowd in the capital's historic central plaza Sunday, Lopez Obrador cheered the final results of the Chiapas election and again claimed he was the rightful winner of the presidential race.© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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The article above just enfuriates me, for the reason that as a Mexican, Lopez Obrador is getting to out of hand. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also known as AMLO, is the candidate of the political party of El PRD. The PRD is known as the leftys that, at this very moment are causing chaos in the Mexico state. On July 2, 2006 the national elections took place where the IFE (Instituto Federal Electoral) announced that Calderon candiate of El Pan had won the election. AMLO immediatly appealed that decision asking for the IFE to recount the ballots. THe thing that makes so mad is that he had agreed to accept any decision the Mexican people would make and not go against any of the decisions taken by the people. He has been blocking many of the main streets in Mexico causing a lot of companies to loose money as well as the people with buisinesses and causing them to loose even more money. He claims to be right and claims to fight until they give him the presidency, but there are many thoughts that come to my head when we talk about this subject.
1. AMLO is not the right person to be the Mexican President for many reasons. He has no word, talks out of his rearend, and many more things I will explain down below.
2. He claims to say he wants democracy and for the first time there are fair elections with the least problems, and he doesn't accept them. So where is democracy in his state of mind?
3. He doesn't fulfill his agreements, he signs a contract and doesnt comply by it. Where is his word?
4. He causes many hardships on the Mexican peoople, having protests on the main Mexico city streets. Where is his sense of peace and diplomacy?
5. He was basically kicked out of the MExico City government for illicit activiy? what makes us think he wouldn't do that to the country? Mexico is messed already!
6. He will bring the Mexican economy even more down the hole, than what they have right now.
There are many things that make me mad about his behavior. After reading the article above to me it doesnt make a difference because Chiapas is more of a lefty state. So it doesn't really matter what they believe because he lies to the people saying he will give them money and etc. But isnt that what all presidents say. Like my father said if you have to choose from all three candidates lets pick the least corrupt of the candidates.This is the only thing that comes to mind right now but I will write more as the days go by!
TContreras!
