Mexican conservative declared president-elect
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Ruling party conservative Felipe   Calderon was finally declared Mexico's president-elect on   Tuesday, ending a two-month legal battle over election fraud   claims that has plunged the nation into crisis.
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Mexican leftists, who say the July   2 election was stolen, declared their candidate the "legitimate   president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing the risk of   street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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MEXICO CITY -- Andr&#xE9;s Manuel L&#xF3;pez Obrador has given up efforts to have himself declared winner of Mexico's presidential race, but he still plans a parallel government to cater to the poor and keep alive his fight against the president-elect, a party spokesman said yesterday.
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MEXICO CITY -- The nation's top electoral court yesterday declared conservative candidate Felipe Calderon president-elect, but the decision is unlikely to resolve a political crisis sparked by the muddled outcome of the July 2 contest.
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Mariano Rajoy succeeded former Spanish prime minister Jose Aznar on Saturday as president of the opposition Popular Party (PP) during its 15th national congress.
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Ruling party conservative Felipe   Calderon finally won Mexico's presidency on Tuesday, ending a   two-month legal battle over fraud claims at a July election   that has plunged the nation into a crisis.
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She supports same-sex marriages and decriminalizing abortion, and admits to smoking pot one time &amp;#151; and inhaling. The chances are next to nil that plainspoken feminist Patricia Mercado, Mexico&#039;s most liberal presidential candidate, will win election. But some say she may ruin the main leftist Democratic Revolution Party&#039;s best shot at the presidency.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday in a chaotic ceremony rattled by fist fights in Congress and jeering protests from leftists who claim he stole a July election that sparked months of political unrest.
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Mexico's Congress approved a landmark tax overhaul on Friday, handing President Felipe Calderon a major legislative victory and Mexico its biggest economic reform in a decade.
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Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon defied leftist protesters on Thursday by vowing to hold his inauguration in Congress despite a sit-in there by opposing lawmakers who say he won the July election by fraud.
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An electoral court will name   conservative Felipe Calderon to be Mexico's next president on   Tuesday, ending months of legal battles but not spirited   protests by leftists who say he stole a July vote.
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Conservative Felipe Calderon came   from behind to snatch Mexico's presidency against the odds but   now he faces the huge task of healing a divided country where   over a third of the people think he is a cheat.
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Mexico's new president announces a pay cut for himself and high-ranking government officials as part of an austerity drive.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox says his country has undergone radical change, and is far removed now from a period when the president ruled through fear.
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The US eyes the right-leaning Mexican president as a bulwark against Latin America's leftist tide.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Leftist candidate Tabare Vazquez declared victory in Uruguay&#39;s presidential election Sunday after exit polls showed him surging past two rivals with a majority of the votes.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declared victory in Argentina's presidential vote on Sunday and was set to become the first woman elected to lead the country.