Monday 23 July 2012by Our Foreign Desk
Thousands of angry voters marched through Mexico City on Sunday to
protest against the "imposition" of Enrique Pena Nieto as the country's
new president.
Protesters carried signs accusing presumed president-elect Mr Pena Nieto
of electoral fraud and Mexico television giant Televisa of being a
"factory of lies."
Opponents say that his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) bought
votes and favourable media coverage to win the July 1 election.
It denies the charges and on Friday accused losing leftist candidate
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of trying to "disqualify the entire
electoral process with lies."
Televisa also denies being paid for positive coverage.
In 2006, after Lopez Obrador narrowly lost to President Felipe Calderon,
he marshalled hundreds of thousands of supporters to block Mexico
City's main centre for weeks.
He has said he will not mobilise people to the streets this time. The 2006 action was highly unpopular with residents.
Student movement I Am 132 has planned a series of events for the coming
weeks, starting with Sunday's march, designed to overturn the vote
results.
Other groups have said they will blockade the December 1 inauguration of
Mr Pena Nieto, who won the presidential election by 6.6 percentage
points according to the official count.
The PRI ruled Mexico for 71 consecutive years between 1929 and 2000 - a
period notorious for massive corruption, patronage, vote fraud and human
rights abuse.
The final vote count must be certified in September by the Federal Electoral Tribunal.
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