AP: MEXICO CITY -- Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his party formally filed a petition Thursday asking Mexico's electoral court to invalidate the results of the July 1 presidential ballot, charging there was vote buying and campaign overspending by the winner of official vote counts.
Lopez Obrador's campaign coordinator, Ricardo Monreal, and Jesus Zambrano, president of the Democratic Revolution Party, turned in the petition along with at least 20 boxes containing alleged proof of vote-buying by members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. Read more.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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