[JURIST] Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal [official website, in Spanish] on Saturday rejected a request by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [campaign website, in Spanish] for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2 presidential election [JURIST news archive], which Obrador lost by less than a percentage point to conservative Felipe Calderon, [read post]

[JURIST] Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [campaign website, in Spanish; Wikipedia profile], who lost the July 2 presidential election [JURIST report] by 0.6 percent of the vote to conservative Felipe Calderon [campaign website, in Spanish; Wikipedia profile], asked supporters Sunday to begin a campaign of "peaceful civil resistance" to bring about a manual [read post]

[JURIST] Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [campaign website, in Spanish; Wikipedia profile] told reporters in Mexico City Saturday ahead of a mass rally that voting fraud caused his official loss to ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon [campaign website, in Spanish; Wikipedia profile] in the July 2 presidential election, and once again declared he would contest [read post]