Mexico Opposition Has Early Lead in State Voting
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The former ruling party had an early lead late Sunday in state gubernatorial elections across Mexico as the party tried to build on a bid to retake the presidency in 2006.
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Early results for Italian local elections  in which 10 million people were eligible to vote put the  centre-right opposition ahead on Monday, but Romano Prodi&#39;s  left-leaning government appeared to have avoided a drubbing.
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Tens of thousands of supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to Mexico City on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount.
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Felipe Calderon&#039;s slim lead in Mexico&#039;s presidential race was called into question as an official recount of vote tallies showed his leftist opponent slightly ahead late Wednesday. However, Calderon insisted he had won and even offered to include his rival in his Cabinet.
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Most Mexicans disapprove of plans by Mexico's main leftist party to disrupt Friday's swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Felipe Calderon, according to a poll released Monday.
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Ballots from Mexico's disputed presidential vote are to be burnt, despite a plea by President-elect Felipe Calderon.
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Their opposition, to the point of alienating Hispanics, offers a preview of the likely fight over judicial nominations.
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A court battle over voter identification requirements could affect tens of thousands of voters in New Mexico, a hotly contested state in the presidential election.
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Mexico's former ruling party, trying to fight its way back to the presidency, overwhelmingly won two gubernatorial elections Monday and held razor-thin leads in two other races.
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Mexico's former ruling party won two gubernatorial races and held narrow leads in two others Monday in an election showing that could make it a force in the 2006 national vote, in which the party seeks to regain the presidency it held for more than 70 years.
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Despite bipartisan opposition backed by religious and business leaders, Arizonans look set to carry an anti-immigrant ballot initiative
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MEXICO CITY -- Since being declared president-elect a week ago, Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, the conservative leader of the governing National Action Party, is spreading a message of conciliation and tolerance as he confronts a charismatic leftist opponent who insists that the election was rigged and who refuses to concede defeat.
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Rival deputies in Mexico's Congress come to blows, days ahead of President-elect Calderon's inauguration.
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Early voting for the US presidential election began in Florida on Monday as activists urged people to opt for early ballots to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  suffered a stunning defeat in a key governorship election  Sunday when it lost Guerrero state for the first time, denting  its chances of winning back the presidency.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  fought to hold on to one of its oldest electoral bastions  before 2006 presidential elections in a close governor's race  on Sunday in Veracruz state.
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A tight governor's race Sunday in Mexico's poorest state has become the latest political battleground for the country's leftist party, which is disputing the results of last month's presidential election.