Court Rules In Favour Of Conservative Felipe Calderon

Posted on Wednesday, September 06 at 13:14 by Diogenes
The decision, handed down by Mexico's electoral court, and the controversy leading up to the unanimous ruling, has split the nation of more than 100 million people along class lines. After the July 2 election, officials said Calderon, a Harvard-educated lawyer and career politician, had edged out Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor with ardent support among the poor by a slim margin; less than 0.6 per cent of the vote or about 240,000 ballots. Populist candidate Lopez Obrador and his supporters alleged the poll was rigged, sparking mass protests and legal battles. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/mexico/

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  1. Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:23 pm
    The rather important issue of election fraud could easily be put to rest for the most part at least, by doing a full recount. Since the ruling establishment refused to do a full recount (despite proof of fraud) served to confirm that Calderon did not win the election, or at the very least confirmed the fraud was substantial and wide spread.

    We need a peoples shadow government because the ruling establishment creates governments that do not work for the people, nor are they even elected by the people. For example, Harper got only 23% of the eligible vote, leaving 77% of the people disenfranchised. I expect to see a continued trend towards voter apathy - why bother voting once it becomes obvious that your vote is meaningless?

    The only reason I voted in the last election was to drop a $1.75 in the bank account of the Greens. If not for that funding oddity, I would have stayed at home and done something many times more meaningful.

  2. Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:42 am
    This election was stolen. Got to get the North American Union in place soon, can't have a dissenter running Mexico.

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    Michael

  3. by Patm
    Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:07 am
    Exactly the point. Without the Fox-a-likes in power, the NAU wouldn't get off the ground.

    Now I want to see what happens in Mexico, I fear a civil war.

  4. by RPW
    Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:19 am
    <blockquote> Now I want to see what happens in Mexico, I fear a civil war </blockquote> Has anyone heard if the military is split......?<p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
    - Justice Louis Brandeis

  5. Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:56 am
    Actually, I have heard that the military is queasy about attacking the "pobres" after the 1968 massacre of the students. However, the units for the first violence will be elite fascist federal specialists tied in with the army and the presidential security services. Watch for the Sept. 16th Democratic National Convention that AMLO has called for that will interfere with the national army day parade in Zocalo Plaza. Tanks will be there and "los pobres" will be committing mass civil disobedience again. It will most likely be historical.

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    Michael

  6. Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:49 pm
    You mean I HOPE a civil war.

    The US may intervene, but that will stretch them so far that they'd have to pull out of the Middle East, and then the'd just be fighting another insurgency, only this time in North America.

    So BRING IT ON! Can you hear the drums, Fernando?

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    “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

  7. Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:22 am
    I watched part of the Senate Committee on the Accountability Act that Harper decided to show his sneering face at. Here he is trying to change the way the Senate is formed because he can't stand that the people may have backers that could defy his agenda while what we really need is electoral reform. He can't live with the idea that the voters could have more say than he does. I have to try and analyze what makes someone like him tick. The only thing I could think of is that this has been bothering him for years. Probably since he was about 8. And his obsessive-compulsive iron trap of a brain can't let it go until he "fixes" it to his satisfaction? I just shake my head over the way this guy functions.

    One senator asked him if he was Americanizing the Senate? He sneered and said I was wondering when that question would come up. I wonder why he was wondering about that?

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    "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

  8. by RPW
    Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:17 am
    Uh.....meglomania...........?

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    "We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
    - Justice Louis Brandeis

  9. Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:38 am
    Nodding.

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    "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

  10. by Patm
    Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:11 am
    No, I hope that non-violent action will be enough. If the country decides it will not obey an illegitimate government, there wouldn't be a lot that government could do.

    Hugo Chavez in Venezuela has demonstrated that there are more ways to win over government than just force. Although he is President there are still governors, mayors, and bereaucrats that have resisted his reforms. Instead of confronting them, he has constructed parallel organizations that simply bypassed the obstructors in order to get things done: and its working beautifully.



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