Mexican court rejects vote challenges

“Mexico’s top electoral court Monday rejected allegations of large-scale vote fraud in July 2 elections, a move likely to make conservative Felipe Calderón the country’s next president.

The seven-judge panel turned aside most of the legal challenges by Calderón’s rival, former Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a left-leaning populist who championed the country’s poor and lost by 0.6% in the closest race in Mexican history.”

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