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LatinNews Daily Report - 04 July 2012
In Brief - Mexico
POLITICS| IFE rules out a full recount. On 4 July Mexico’s electoral authority (IFE) rejected calls by the leftist Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) to conduct a full recount of the 1 July presidential vote due to the various “inconsistencies and irregularities” denounced by its observers. Leonardo Valdés Zurita, IFE’s president, recognised there had been irregularities and that these warranted a recount of some 45,000-50,000 ballot boxes, which roughly represent a third of the vote. However, Valdés Zurita said that according to Mexico’s electoral rules, a full recount is not warranted given that “the difference between the first- and second-placed candidates is not less than one percentage point, or the number of void votes is not equal or greater than the difference between the first- and second-place[d candidates]”, which would allow the second-placed candidate to call for a full recount. The candidate of the PRD-led coalition, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has refused to recognise defeat in the elections until IFE releases the official results; and said he will challenge these once they are made available since there were “irregularities in almost 80% of all voting stations”.
