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    Election protesters rally in Mexico City

    Election protesters rally in Mexico City
    MARK STEVENSON
    Associated Press

    MEXICO CITY - Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador led thousands of protesters outside Mexico's top electoral court on Monday to demand a total recount in the presidential election, warning that he would start a long-term radical movement if the court did not agree.

    The demonstration comes two days after the Federal Electoral Tribunal ruled that it would only recount ballots at about 9 percent of the nation's 130,000 polling places, where it said there was evidence that the vote may have been miscounted.

    Lopez Obrador wants the court to recount all of the 41 million votes cast in the July 2 vote and warned there would be consequences if it didn't agree.

    "What is going to happen if they ratify this imposition?" he said in an angry, somewhat hoarse voice to about 5,000 followers.

    "Revolution!" his supporters replied with their fists in the air.

    "We are going to start a movement for the transformation of the nation's institutions," Lopez Obrador said. "We are going to transform our country, and this is going to happen one way or the other."

    Carrying banners with slogans, such as "No Damn Fraud," and chanting, "Vote by vote, poll by poll!" the crowd blocked traffic on a boulevard outside the court.

    "This is just the start of much stronger actions," said Jose Antonio Valles, a 52-year-old engineer at the protest.

    An official count of the election gave ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon an advantage of 0.6 percent, or about 240,000 votes, over Lopez Obrador.

    The leftist candidate claims that a ballot-by-ballot recount would show he was the true winner.

    "We do not accept a partial recount. The Mexican people do not want only part of the truth," Lopez Obrador told the protesters outside the court.

    The court's seven judges are unlikely to be swayed. They voted unanimously for a partial recount that will begin Wednesday and last no longer than five days. They have until Sept. 6 to declare a president-elect or annul the race.

    To press his case, Lopez Obrador has asked his supporters to maintain a weeklong blockade of the capital's financial and cultural heart that is costing the city an estimated $23 million a day in lost commerce and causing traffic jams throughout the city.

    Protesters have set up camps on main avenues and even tried to block the country's stock exchange.

    Although Lopez Obrador has urged them to remain peaceful, many are ready for confrontation.

    On Sunday, waiting for Lopez Obrador to speak, they chanted in favor of seizing Mexico City's international airport and some suggested taking over Congress, moves that would almost certainly trigger confrontations with federal authorities. Security has been increased at both sites.

    Lopez Obrador said nothing about the airport or Congress, but he promised "new actions, new measures of civil resistance" and asked his followers "to prepare ourselves for a struggle that may last longer."

    He accused outgoing President Vicente Fox, whose historic victory in 2000 ended 71 years of one-party rule, of using the presidency to ensure his party won the election.

    Calderon said Mexico's institutions were strong enough to survive attacks from "anti-democrats," an apparent jab at the leftist protest movement.

    "The solidness of our institutions has overcome the attacks of anti-democrats, anarchists and intolerance," Calderon told a gathering of his party's lawmakers.

    Representatives of Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party and Calderon's National Action Party will observe the partial recount, examining the markings on each ballot and challenging votes where they can.

    The process could potentially swing the count in Lopez Obrador's favor. However, overcoming a 244,000-vote lead by re-examining just 9 percent of the ballots will be difficult.

    "I think they might find marginal differences, at best, but I can't conceive of them finding a real mess," political analyst Oscar Aguilar said.

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    Vicente Fox loved the idea of his people marching and making demands in our streets.

    I wonder how much he likes having it done in his country, where it belongs.
    It's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.

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    Lopez Obrador call for Revolution...

    As much as I hate any leftist movement, I take this guy over any other in Mexico any day of the week. He has it right by considering declaring a revolution in the pathetic and ever-corrupt Mexican government.. He also acknowledges that people fleeing Mexico are cowards and a disgrace instead of portraying them as heroes. I back this Guy 100% and hope that he can shake things up for this corrupt and disgraced Mexican government..

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    Vicente Fox loved the idea of his people marching and making demands in our streets.
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