Mexico's leftist claims recount narrows rival's lead in contested presidential
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Mexico's rivals in the July 2 presidential election quibbled over a few thousand votes recounted by election officials, as followers of the losing candidate claimed police brutality outside Congress.
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Conservative ruling party candidate  Felipe Calderon won Mexico's ferociously contested July 2  presidential election, the country's top electoral court said  in a preliminary ruling on Tuesday.
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MEXICO CITY -- Andr&#xE9;s Manuel L&#xF3;pez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calder&#xF3;n.
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A leftist nationalist who is friendly with Venezuela's anti-U.S. president held a commanding lead over a Bible-toting banana tycoon in Sunday's runoff presidential election in Ecuador, according to an unofficial quick count of sample votes.
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The ballots have been cast and counted. But Felipe Calderon isn&#039;t Mexico&#039;s president-elect until the nation&#039;s highest electoral court says so.
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Mexico's leftist presidential   candidate, whose mass street protests over alleged vote fraud   have put him at odds with much of the country, has now fallen   afoul of the influential Roman Catholic church.
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Conservative ruling party candidate   Felipe Calderon won Mexico's July 2 election and is   president-elect, a top court said on Tuesday after a long fight   over fraud claims that has plunged the country into crisis.
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The party of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador demanded a ballot-by-ballot recount Tuesday in Mexico&#039;s closest-ever presidential race, claiming vote counts were manipulated and renewing fears of violent protests if the fiery politician doesn&#039;t get his way.
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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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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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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 two rivals in Mexico's disputed presidential election agree on one thing: Ballots from the closest race ever shouldn't be destroyed, despite laws calling for them to be burned. But it's unclear if electoral officials can ignore the law and save the closely scrutinized paper votes.
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MEXICO CITY &amp;#151; Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a vast crowd of supporters Sunday to wage a campaign of &quot;civil resistance&quot; to push for a manual recount of the election that he claims his conservative opponent won by fraud.
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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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Leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has declared himself Mexico's "legitimate president," saw his strength wane as organizers of Wednesday's march to protest skyrocketing tortilla prices asked him to stay on the sidelines.
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MEXICO CITY &amp;#151; Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through the Mexican capital on Sunday to demand a manual recount in the disputed presidential election, led by a leftist candidate who says fraud cost him the presidency.
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The leftist government of Mexico  City acknowledged on Friday its popular mayor is likely to be  knocked out of the race for the national presidency in 2006 in  a legal challenge backed by President Vicente Fox.