Monday, September 04, 2006

Mexican Electoral Court to Make Presidential Election Decision

As reported here, the Mexican Federal Electoral Tribunal issued a statement today saying that they will announce their findings tomorrow regarding the presidential election results. They could annul the results, forcing a re-vote, or they could declare a president-elect.

Of course, the leftist candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador immediately issued threats of 'action' if he doesn't get his way by being elected president, saying that he and his followers will hold a convention to come up with a new constitution, and set up a parallel government, with him as Mexico's dictator president.

This is in spite of the fact that he lost the election by roughly 244,000 votes, an admittedly slim margin which was only slightly reduced by 4,000 votes in the partial recount.

By declaring his intentions of establishing a parallel government, what he is saying in effect to those who didn't vote for him is that they don't count in his world! Only his supporters count.

Sounds rather dictatorial to me.

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