Mexican court leader sides with Calderon

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By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago



MEXICO CITY - The president of Mexico's top electoral court recommended Tuesday that the full tribunal uphold the slim lead of ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon. The recommendation must still be approved, but Leonel Castillo recommended that the seven magistrates vote in favor of a final vote count that gave Calderon a 233,831-vote lead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_elections

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1. Mexican court upholds vote fraud

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2. Seems Mexico's rule of law has broken down too. n/t

[Robbien]

3. Poor Mexico

Union busting and privatization of resources is the new game plan now for Mexico with the rich getting richer and everyone else getting poorer.

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4. That's the plan between all the leaders who have signed the GREAT

DIVIDE plan. P-NACO FASCISTS and their P-NACO Fascist Think Tanko's have decided that rich and poor is the only way for the rich to thrive. The middle class is a big problem. Controlling the poor is easier. The middle class while rising and thriving think in terms of brotherhood including unions and that does not serve the rich. The rich can make easier decisions and take actions with less flack in regard to owning earth resources. Leaders like Saddam are mavericks. That is why they ae so spitting mad at Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, North Korea, Iran - they know they can't get them sign on like Vicente Fox did in Mexico where laborers are traded like slaves. They will turn friends into more enemies as they progress - if honest people are not sent to Washington.

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5. updated link:Mexico's Calderon is president-elect: court draft

Mexico's Calderon is president-elect: court draft
Tue Sep 5, 2006 11:44 AM ET
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By Catherine Bremer
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Conservative ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon won Mexico's ferociously contested July 2 election and is president-elect, the top electoral court said in a draft ruling on Tuesday.

Earlier on Tuesday, the court said Calderon had won with a margin of about 234,000 votes. In this latest draft ruling, the court said he could now be declared president-elect, the first time the election body has made this announcement.

The final, official decision is still to be voted on later in the day by a panel of seven judges, who have already thrown out leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's claims of massive fraud.

Mexico, which only introduced full democracy with President Vicente Fox's victory at the last presidential election in 2000, has been gripped by political drama for months.

more:http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=13392062&src=rss/topNews