Mexican leftist threatens to step up vote protests

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Posted on: July 23rd, 2006
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“A spokesman for the leftist candidate who barely lost Mexico’s presidential election threatened on Saturday to step up civil resistance unless the conservative winner agrees to a complete recount.

Former Indian rights worker Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the July 2 vote was rigged against him and has called for peaceful civil disobedience to pressure Mexico’s top electoral court into ordering a vote-by-vote recount.”

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