"We don't want a portion of democracy. We want 100% democracy."

i hope amlo has more success than we did in florida... the 12 december 2000 scotus decision started the descent into our current level of dante's hell...



Protestors at the Stock
Exchange in Mexico City

Mr Lopez Obrador rejected the tribunal's decision to recount votes from only 9% of polling stations.

"We don't want a portion of democracy. We want 100% democracy," he told thousands of supporters in Mexico City.

Official results from the 2 July vote gave victory to the conservative Felipe Calderon by half of a percentage point.

For the past week his supporters have been camped out in central Mexico City as part of a campaign of "civil disobedience" to demand a full "vote-by-vote" recount.

Mr Lopez Obrador told tens of thousands of supporters in the city's vast Zocalo Square on Sunday: "This week we are going to carry out actions of resistance." The fight, he added, would "possibly will take more time, but will not be in vain". [He] urged followers to march on the electoral tribunal headquarters on Monday, and to keep up their sit-in of the Zocalo Square and main Reforma Avenue.

The sit-ins have snarled up much of the centre of the city for the last week.

mexico's poor are insisting that they be heard... hint: it's not free trade and globalization they're demanding...

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