Departamento de Estado 18, elección presidencial 2006

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lassified By: Ambassador Antonio O. Garza for reasons 1.4(8/D).. (C) Summary: On July 6, the Federal Electoral Institute'sFE) district councils completed their retabulation of the

Sunday's election. The official resultswith 35.888 and Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwith 35.3141, a margin of 0.57%. We understand that

FE General Council is to meet late July 6 to officiallyen before the final votes were

ulated, AMLO held a press conference to declare that hethe results before the Federal Electoral

PJF) and called for his supporters to gather inity's central plaza on Saturday, July 8, for "an

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ndsummary.And the Results Are In....

2. (U) On July 6, the IFE's 300 district councils completedthe process of retabulating the election results. The finalresults showed Calderon with 35.88% and AMLO with 35.31%,representing a slender 0.57$ (236,000 vote) margin ofvictory. This final result differed by only 0.06% from theIFE's preliminary results (reftel), when adjusted for the

ately 2.5 million votes the counting of which wasy deferred due to inconsistencies. The tEl Governingouncil was scheduled to meet late today to announce the

According to press reports, President Fox haso accede to an IFE request not to make a public

MLO Plans to Contest Election

am local time, hours before the IFE finishedbulation, AMLO held a news conference to announced not accept the IFE's results and intended tom in the TEPJF. He implied that the principal

of his complaint would be the failure of the 300 IFEcils to order a vote-by-vote recount of everynct. (Note: As noted in reftel, Mexican electoral law

ts vote-by-vote recounts when particulargal authority enabling the IFE to order a vote-by-voteabsent such criteria. End note.) AMLO called the

characterizedE's decision not to permit a vote-by-vote recount as "not

ent." When asked about Calderon's statement earlythe results of the retabulation

vor him, AMLO said it was too early for Calderon to. In a vague allegation of electoral

onduct on the part of the PAN, AMLO added "they know what

ess conference, AMLO also announced thatbe held at Mexico City's Zocalo on Saturday, July 8 at0 pm. He said that he wanted to inform his supporters

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UCIFIEDdirectly of the situation, adding that while LhASSe and hissupporters would act "responsibly," they would defend the"popular will."5. (SBU) A PRD contact told poloff that Saturday's eventwould not be a march or rally, but rather a meeting in whichthe candidate can brief his supporters on irregularities inthe process and the reasons why he has chosen to contest theelection before the TEPJF. Enumerating examples ofirregularities, she said that in some precincts in thestate of Jalisco, PRD party representatives had

completed, and that during the retabulation process,ome votes that previously had been counted as null votes in

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