Mexico left names own "president"
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Mexican leftists, who say the July   2 election was stolen, declared their candidate their   "legitimate president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing   the risk of street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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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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Fears of disruption force Mexico's president to hold Independence Day celebrations outside the capital.
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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 largest left-wing party apparently won an important victory Sunday in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, according to initial results, in one of three gubernatorial elections that could preview next year's national presidential campaign.
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Mexico's top electoral court is expected to declare Felipe Calderon president-elect when it rules on Tuesday.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday but he faces a rough reception from leftist opponents who claim he stole July's election and plan to stop him from being sworn in later in the day.
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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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The leftist opposition leader who had himself declared Mexico's "legitimate president" this week to back up claims of fraud in a July 2 presidential election asked for donations on Wednesday to pay his salary.
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Mexico's outgoing President Vicente Fox said Tuesday he does not expect the country's leftist opposition to militantly oppose his successor even though it has declared a parallel government.
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Voters chose a governor Sunday for Mexico's poorest state &#151; the latest political battleground for the leftist party that is disputing the results of last month's presidential election.
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Mexico's electoral court will name   ruling party conservative Felipe Calderon president-elect on   Tuesday and reject claims the fiercely disputed July 2   presidential vote was unfair, sources said.
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Uruguayans elected Tabare Vazquez as the nation&#39;s first leftist president, vote tallies showed Monday, breaking a 170-year lock on power by two traditional parties and strengthening Latin America&#39;s shift to the left.
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Mexico's leftist presidential candidate said Thursday the electoral agency has abandoned its autonomous role and become a tool of the ruling party, and he promised to send campaign advisers abroad to lobby foreign governments for support in his battle for the presidency.
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The top vote getter in Mexico&#039;s presidential election said Monday he has begun working on his new government, even though the country&#039;s electoral court has yet to declare a winner in the disputed race.
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President-elect Felipe Calderon named a governor tied to a violent crackdown on protesters to his Cabinet Tuesday, while leftist and ruling party lawmakers came to blows in Mexico's Congress over fears that the opposition would try to sabotage the inauguration.
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Felipe Calderon reaches out to his opponent after being declared Mexico's president-elect, but is rebuffed.