We can’t accept a fraudulent result

Pena Nieto, who claimed victory last night rayban sunglasses, benefited from the PRI buying at least one million votes and exceeding the campaign finance limit, Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party said today at a press conference in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador, 58, the former Mexico City mayor, whose backers blockaded the capital’s main commercial boulevard in 2006 for weeks after he lost to President Felipe Calderon by less than a percentage point, didn’t call his supporters into the streets today and said he would use legal means should he challenge the results. Lopez Obrador said most of Mexico’s media supported Pena Nieto’s campaign, manipulating and deceiving voters. “We can’t accept a fraudulent result,” said Lopez Obrador, adding that middle-class and affluent Mexicans who backed Pena Nieto, 45 0akley, were voting “to maintain a regime of corruption.” Jesus Zambrano, the head of Lopez Obrador’s party, said in an interview that the PRD will decide whether to formally protest the election’s result by July 4, once the district counts have been completed. PRI Leading The PRI candidate leads by 3.2 million votes with 99 percent of the ballot counted, according to the Federal Electoral Institute. Eduardo Sanchez, a spokesman for Pena Nieto’s party, denied the allegations. “The charges are offensive to the dignity of all the voters who supported Pena Nieto, because they allege that Mexican voters are susceptible to vote buying,” he said in a phone interview. The press office for the electoral institute declined to comment. Lopez Obrador “will not be able to run the kind of post- electoral dispute that he ran in 2006,” said Federico Estevez, a political science professor at mac cosmetics online the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico in Mexico City. “It’s obvious he lost. It wasn’t so obvious last time. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t skullduggery in the election.” The PRI ruled alone for seven decades until 2000, a period marked by corruption and cronyism. With about one percent of votes remaining to be counted, Pena Nieto won 38.2 percent, topping 31.6 percent for Lopez Obrador, according to election authorities. Josefina Vazquez Mota of Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN, gained 25.4 percent of the vote. Lopez Obrador’s coalition did not initially accept results when its candidate lost in the 2011 Mexico state election by 41 percentage points. Few protesters took to the streets mac shimmer blush after the race in that state, which was governed by Pena Nieto from 2005 to 2011 and is not a PRD stronghold.