Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Elections!
Go Mexico!
The tribunal has until Sept. 6 to name the winner of the election. Political tension and uncertainty have gripped Mexico for weeks, with Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) threatening to make the country ungovernable if Calderon becomes president.
Lopez Obrador told supporters, "I was expecting" the ruling. He later added that he would never recognize a Calderon victory or his resulting government. Use force to coerce your ideology into place? How democratic and undictatorial.
Analysts say Calderon made up ground on his rival with a sophisticated media campaign that portrayed the leftist as a dangerous radical who would bankrupt the country. That seems to be the plan. Good call!
More from Matt Smith at the SF Weekly.
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