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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (3090)	7/3/2006 4:29:23 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224676

Disappointed?--Conservative Wins in Mexico....By Frank Jack Daniel MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory on Monday in a bitterly contested election and official returns appeared to show his leftist rival could no longer catch him. Calderon had a lead of almost 400,000 votes over Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with returns in from almost 98 percent of polling stations and a senior election official said it was unlikely to change with a recount ordered for later this week. A Calderon victory would ensure Mexico sticks to the free-market policies of outgoing President Vicente Fox and hold steady as a U.S. ally, bucking a trend of Latin American nations who have turned to the left and away from Washington in recent years. "There is an irreversible result and it is in my favor," a confident Calderon of the ruling National Action Party said in a television interview. "The result gives me a very clear victory that cannot be reversed." Arturo Sanchez, one of the nine board members of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute, or IFE, said he expected a recount to make no difference to the result. "What is going to happen with these results? The truth is they will be the same," he told Reuters. Lopez Obrador said on Sunday night he won the election by 500,000 votes and would insist that his victory be recognized in an official recount but he appeared more open to a possible defeat on Monday.