"We Will Never Recognize A President-Elect Who Is Illegitimate"

[kpete]

Mexican leftist will never accept rival's win Sun Sep 3, 5:06 PM ET

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's leftist opposition leader said on Sunday he will never recognize his right-wing rival as president and vowed a "radical transformation" of the country by setting up a parallel government.

Mexico's electoral court is almost certain to confirm the ruling party's Felipe Calderon as president-elect this week, but Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador insists he was robbed in the July 2 election.

"We will never accept usurpation nor recognize a president-elect who is illegitimate," the former mayor of Mexico City told a rally of thousands of supporters in the capital's main square.

"We are going for deep change, root change, because that is what Mexico needs," he said. "It is a radical transformation. We are going for the construction of a new country that is fair and honorable."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060903/wl_nm/mexico_election_dc

[Selatius]

1. I am willing to bet somebody will try ot assassinate Obrador

Kill him like they killed Martin Luther King, Jr., or Robert F. Kennedy. Gotta keep the working class stiffs deprived of somebody who makes them think too much and makes them dream too much.

[liberalhistorian]

3. If that does, indeed, happen,

I predict that all hell and high water WILL engulf Mexico, count on it. If something happens to Obrador, I think a major civil war will break out in the country, bad enough to make those responsible wish they'd left Obrador alone. I don't think the people would stand for it.

[bahrbearian]

5. Exactly

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. We should have said the same thing.

[Greyhound]

4. Their candidate won't back down. n/t

:kick:

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. We are too soft, Period, end of story.

[Zorra]

7. And that's why I cringe whenever anyone uses the "P" word in

reference to the chimp.

I will never recognize monkeyboy as my President.

Glad to hear AMLO shouting this from the rooftops.