Nightmare scenario hangs over Mexico election
By Alistair Bell
Reuters
Monday, June 26, 2006; 1:57 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Millions of angry protesters claiming vote fraud, chaos in the courts, financial markets collapsing, troops in the streets -- that's the nightmare scenario should Mexico's July 2 presidential election have a disputed finish.
Although Mexico is unlikely to spin out of control, its young democracy could be tested to the limits if the vote, the first since one-party rule ended in 2000, ends in deadlock.
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is only inches ahead of conservative Felipe Calderon in opinion polls. To complicate matters, Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is not far behind them in some surveys.
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Electoral authorities are generally seen as independent but in a country where many believe widespread allegations that the government stole a presidential election from a leftist in 1988, things could still go wrong.
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Reuters
Monday, June 26, 2006; 1:57 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Millions of angry protesters claiming vote fraud, chaos in the courts, financial markets collapsing, troops in the streets -- that's the nightmare scenario should Mexico's July 2 presidential election have a disputed finish.
Although Mexico is unlikely to spin out of control, its young democracy could be tested to the limits if the vote, the first since one-party rule ended in 2000, ends in deadlock.
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is only inches ahead of conservative Felipe Calderon in opinion polls. To complicate matters, Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is not far behind them in some surveys.
(snip)
Electoral authorities are generally seen as independent but in a country where many believe widespread allegations that the government stole a presidential election from a leftist in 1988, things could still go wrong.
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