Reply #11: Mexico: Left to take Demonstrations Electoral Tribunal [View All]

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You have to love the Mexican left. They have such great instincts. They hold rallies, people show up en masse, and then as events change so do tactics. Why not demonstrate at the Election Tribunal. It has a certain Bastille flavor to it. I’m sure like the little that French crowds discovered when then entered the Bastille, the Mexicans entering the propagandist designated august court will find nothing more than a hotline to Vicente Fox and his “friends.”

Dallas Morning News: Posted on Sun, Aug. 06, 2006
Lopez Obrador calls for protests outside electoral tribunal

By Laurence Iliff
(MCT)

MEXICO CITY - Leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced new acts of civil resistance Sunday in an attempt to pressure the Federal Electoral Tribunal to reconsider its decision to recount just 9 percent of all polling places in the July 2 presidential election.

"Even though the tribunal has decided in favor of a partial recount of polling places, we don't accept this partial recount. We want a recount of all the polling places," Lopez Obrador said before thousands of supporters in the downtown Zocalo square.

"We don't want one-tenth of democracy, we want 100 percent," said Lopez Obrador, who has made unproven charges of vote fraud.

Lopez Obrador, who lost by 244,000 votes of more than 41 million cast, called on supporters to gather in front of the tribunal's offices in southern Mexico City on Monday. His "assemblies" have previously been held only in the Zocalo, the city's main square.