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AMLO Summons a National Democratic Convention The PRD member evokes Article 39 of the Constitution to affirm that the people are the only ones who can change the government; he recalls the "Ayala Plan," signed by Emiliano Zapata. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched his call for a "National Democratic Convention For the Good of All," with its basis in Article 39 of the Constitution, to be held the 16th of September in the Zocalo capital square [in Mexico City]. The PRD member read said constitutional precept aloud and recalled that therein it is indicated that national sovereignty resides in...

Encinas warns that an institutional political crisis is near He indicates that the GDF1 will not permit elements of the Federal Preventive Police to go out from their assigned perimiters. The Head of Government of the Federal District, Alejandro Encinas, warned that [the country] is on the brink of passing from a post-electoral conflict to an institutional political crisis. "I believe that there are three objectives in the situation which our country is living through. I believe that we are passing from a post-electoral conflict to an institutional political crisis. Whoever does not want to see it as such,...

The TEPJF will begin alleviation of appeals of electoral inconformity The Ex-Executive Secretary of the IFE,1 Maria del Carmen Alanis Figueroa, assures that they will not open a single additional electoral packet. With the end of the partial recount of votes in the 11,839 electoral packets of the presidential election, the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) now has all the elements to begin to alleviate the 374 appeals of electoral inconformity, according to Maria del Carmen Alanis Figueroa, Ex-Executive Secretary of the IFE. In her analysis of the phase that the tribunal is about...

Election authorities on Wednesday began a court ordered partial recount of the July 2 presidential vote that revealed minor errors during the first day´s ballot reviews. Officials from the Federal Electoral Institute supervised by 192 federal judges began reviewing ballots from 9 percent of more than 130,000 polling places. The recount is part of the process for the court to settle challenges brought by second-place candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who claims fraud. The court-ordered recount will probably narrow Calderón´s margin of victory, said Chappell Lawson, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Such an outcome could...

The For the Good of All coalition1 asks for an annulment of the votes of the 11,800 electoral packets under revision2 In light of the scant variations which the partial recount of votes ordered by the Electoral Tribunal has shown, the strategy of the For the Good of All coalition spun towards the nullification of the more than 11,800 electoral packets which began to be opened the 9th of August. Horacio Duarte, representative of the PRD in the IFE3, asserted that in 5,177 electoral packets of which he has reports, [the coalition] has detected 18,142 ballots overcounted4 and 51,658...

AMLO's sympathizers block access to bank offices Civil resistance impedes the passage of employees at the offices of the Bancomer1 Center on Universidad Avenue, Banamex2 on Venustiano Carranza Avenue, and HSBC3 on the Paseo de la Reforma Avenue. The For the Good of All coalition4 initiated at 7:00 a.m. today a series of blockages at the central offices of the Banamex, Bancomer, and HSBC banks. Groups of the followers of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left their encampments at the Zocalo capital plaza to direct themselves, first to the Banamex bank building, located on the street corner of Isabel La...

AMLO is moving informative assembly1 to the TEPJF The candidate of the For the Good of All coalition2 called on his sympathizers to come together tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. at the offices of the Electoral Tribunal to carry out an assembly. The candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, announced that tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. the coalition will carry out an informative assembly in front of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation. During his fourth informative assembly in the Zocalo capital plaza, Lopez Obrador insisted on the necessity of...

TEPJF rules against vote by vote recount The Electoral Tribunal presented the legal-electoral obstacles that the For the Good of All coalition1 did not surpass to attempt a precinct by precinct, vote by vote recount. The Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) rejected this morning the aspiration of the For the Good of All coalition that they carry out a recount of all the votes of all the precincts set up for the presidential election of this past July 2. To the hope of leaving it to judge this aspect of the vote, the Secretary...

The TEPJF Decides Tomorrow if There Will Be a Recount of Votes The Superior Court of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) will convene1 a public session at 10:00 a.m. this Saturday, to resolve 175 received incident reports and will make a special pronouncement with reference to the challenges to the presidential election. The seven magistrates who make up the Superior Court should pronounce their decision with respect to the electoral packets2 to determine whether or not it will carry out a recount of votes of the presidential election of July 2. At 10:15 a.m....

The Organic Intellectuals1 incorporate themselves in the masses who blindly obey slogans without measuring the consequences. They are losing the election and reason. The struggle for power has characteristics which on occasion result in the loss of reason and in an abstraction of reality typical of totalitarian thought. Defeat in an enormously competitive electoral process poses a challenge to the institutions of democracy, but also to the temper and responsibility of those politicians who, feeling themselves sure winners, come to be obligated to confront an adverse reality. The candidacy of Lopez Obrador was under construction as far back as...

So states César Nava, Adjutant Secretary General of the white and blue1, that this self-proclamation is in the style of Antonio López de Santa Ana. The National Action Party (PAN) assured today that the statement of the presidential candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, given to the Univision channel:2 "Yes, I am the President of Mexico. I am the President of Mexico by the will of the majority," is "one more occurence of a messianic impudence." César Nava Vázquez, Adjutant Secretary General of the PAN Party, said that this self-proclamation is "in the...

Coalition threatens to harden protest mobilizations Fernández Noroña, spokesman for the For the Good of All Coalition,1 asserts that, if after the meeting of July 30th,2 the PAN Party continues to reject the opening of the electoral packets,3 the coalition will initiate "energetic radical actions." Gerardo Fernández Noroña, spokesman for the For the Good of All coalition, made known that after the protest meeting that will take place Sunday July 30th, "if the PAN Party continues to reject the opening of the packets, we are going to make important decisions for absolutely forceful and energetic radical actions that will not...

Says the country is calm, there is no nervousness The PAN national leadership accused the ex-presidential candidate of the PRD, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of carrying out an "inadmissible blackmail" after assuring that Mexico will not have peace so long as it does not open the electoral packets1 and count vote by vote. The Adjutant Secretary General of PAN, César Nava Vázquez, assured that a possible civil resistance promoted by the PRD and its candidate is not viable, since the votes already "were counted by a million citizens, as precinct officials," one by one. He added that the pretension [that...

AMLO calls for a working day of peaceful civil resistance(Translation) The presidential candidate of the For the Good of All coalition exhorted thousands of followers brought together in [Mexico City's] Zócalo capitol plaza to "defend democracy." Andrés Manuel López Obrador headed a march of hundreds of thousands of his sympathizers who overwhelmed the streets of the center of Mexico City to demand a recount of each vote cast in the July 2 presidential elections and which, in his opinion, would permit [everyone] to ascertain that he won the fight and not his conservative rival. "We are going to start, to...

TEPJF1 secures 50% of Official Electoral Reports2 They are providing information that Saturday morning they will beat the deadline so that they present all the calculation documentation and lawsuits of non-compliance of the presidential and federal deputy3 elections. A little more than 50% of the official electoral computation reports of the presidential and federal deputy elections are already esconced in the home office of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF), the constitutional body responsible for presidential certification. TEPJF officials provided information that as of 3:00 p.m. they would have registered 165 of 300 [electoral] district...

The total recount would be absurd and illegal, the PAN leader indicates; he offers to accept the judgement of the TEPJF.1 The virtual winner of the presidential election of July 2, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, said he is willing to accept a partial recount of the vote, but he ruled out a total reexamination considering it "absurd and illegal," [according to] an interview with the United States daily newspaper The Washington Post. With the purpose of preventing "the escalation of tensions," Calderón ruled out summoning his followers to go out into the streets and counteract Andrés Manuel López Obrador's sympathizers.2 He...

The institute waits to know the resolution of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation. In order to bring a measure of tranquility to society, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) resolved to suspend the opening of electoral packets.1 Even though the General Law of Systems and Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters authorizes the IFE to open the packets to recover files of the presidential election and to send them to the Federal Electoral Tribunal, [the IFE] determined to suspend this procedure. Miguel Ángel Solís, Executive Director of electoral organization of the institute, explained that they will...

PAN Notices Acts of Violence; Hold AMLO Responsible PAN leaders provide information that they have interposed a demand before the Procurator General of the Republic1 in the presumed kidnapping of one of their representatives in Comalcalco, Tabasco at the hands of PRD members. PAN holds Andrés Manuel López Obrador responsible for "whatever violence he generates" in the country, after calling upon his supporters to concentrate in the 300 district meetings of the Federal Electoral Institute. In a press release, PAN's representative to the IFE2, Germán Martínez Cázares, asserted that López Obrador is "the only one responsible and no one else"...

PAN spokesman César Nava alleged that the presidential candidate of the For the Good of All coalition never said that the representative of his party at that precinct1 in Salamanca2 signed the vote tabulation report3 for the precinct without presenting any protest. César Nava Vázquez, spokesman for the National Action Party (PAN), said that the video about a presumed stuffing of a ballot box in Salamanca, which the presidential candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presented yesterday represents "a coarse intent to deceive people." Nava indicated that López Obrador never said that the...

Calderón Evaluates Last Stage of Electoral Process (Translation) The virtual winner of the July 2 elections maintained a meeting with his team to analyze the challenge to the election and his defense of the vote before the TEPJF1 While beginning the planning period of governmental transition, the PAN presidential candidate, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, met with his advisory team to evaluate the last stage of the electoral process. In a communication, Calderón Hinojosa's press office informed the meeting that through this Monday the PAN candidate has maintained his work team. It was specified that in that meeting he spoke of the...