Mexico's version of Al Gore, far-left candidate Obrador, has been rebuffed in his efforts to have election results overturned in court, according to Reuters:
Mexico's top electoral court threw out leftists' allegations of massive fraud in last month's presidential election on Monday, handing almost certain victory to conservative candidate Felipe Calderon.
The seven judges voted unanimously to reject most of the legal complaints by left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said he was robbed of victory in the July 2 vote.Calderon, a former energy minister from the ruling National Action Party, won the election by just 0.58 of a percentage point or 244,000 votes, the initial result showed.
The judges fell short of formally declaring Calderon the winner but said there were only marginal changes to the original results after recounts and annulments at some of the most fiercely contested polling stations.
"Based on the annulments that were deemed necessary, all the parties lost a considerable amount of votes but that did not affect the results," judge Jose Luna said.
Read the rest at link above. If Calderon can institute the reforms Fox promised but never delivered, Mexico may emerge from its continuing economic doldrums.
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