Weekly Report - 12 July 2012 (WR-12-27)

Mexico’s defeated leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is once again refusing to go quietly. He is preparing a legal challenge alleging that the victor Enrique Peña Nieto benefited from massive vote buying and campaign overspending by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), as well as media bias. He is insisting that the elections should be annulled or invalidated. Intriguingly, the ruling Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) is levelling exactly the same charges at Peña Nieto while, pointedly, refusing to present a joint legal challenge with the Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) and recognising his victory.

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