Calderón Claims Recount Confirms Victory

Felipe Calderón, the candidate of Mexico’s ruling PAN party, has claimed that a partial recount of the July 2 voting will confirm him as the winner of the presidential elections. There has been no official declaration of the recount from the country’s Federal Electoral Court charged with overseeing the review and publishing the results. The review of ballots from 9% of the country’s polling stations was authorized August 5 following a request for a full recount by opposition candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). The PRI candidate has refused to accept defeat in the elections and has urged his supporters to continue with their protests which have disrupted the center of Mexico City for the past two weeks.