by the El Reportero news services
Enrique Peña Nieto
México, 2 jul (PL) The presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary parties (PRI) and Green Ecologist (PMVE), Enrique Peña Nieto, proclaimed his triumph in the Mexican elections.
However, according to Latin News, PRI returns to power but falls short of congressional majority.
“The Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is back after a 12-year hiatus. The party that had a stranglehold on federal power in Mexico for 71 years will once more inhabit Los Pinos from 1 December after Enrique Peña Nieto won a tighter-than-predicted contest on 1 July.”
Preliminary results strongly suggest that the PRI failed to secure a coveted congressional majority, however, which could complicate Peña Nieto’s proposed reform agenda. The party made some gains in the state gubernatorial elections but it also received some setbacks, reported Latin News.
The president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, confirmed to have congratulated by telephone to Peña Nieto for having won the elections in Mexico.
Pérez Molina talked to Pérez Nieto the night on Sunday when the surveys at the ballot boxex showed him as the winner, with which the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary and Green Ecologist parties will be president in the neighboring country.
According to the Guatemalan president, he said to Peña Nieto his government interest in continuing working closely with Mexico and invited him to carry out a visit to this nation.
Yo Soy 132 movement does not recognize virtual Mexican President
The Mexican student movement #Yo Soy 132 unanimously approved not recognizing the stated results of the July 1 elections, which gave the victory to Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, said Mexican press today.
Yo Soy 132 pointed out that there had been “a process to impose candidate Enrique Peña Nieto” as President of the Republic.
In its Fifth Inter-University Assembly, the students denounced the process as plagued with presumed irregularities, among them the lack of media equity, the polling surveys – regarded as tricky – and the purchase and co-opting of votes during the elections, said Foro TV.
The movement decided to congregate indefinitely in front of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), to protest the partial electoral results.
Televisa and TVAzteca can do whatever they want and for six years they’ve been telling the people ‘this guy will be your president,’ and then they put in Felipe Calderon,” said Juan Carlos Sanchez, from the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences.
But in 2012, people are no longer going to swallow such an imposition, he added, assuring that in Sunday’s election “people were bribed and bused to the vote, and that votes were bought,also people were threatened, these things happen here.”
For his part, Enrique Peña Nieto told Televisa he was sure the vote recount will confirm the edge he was given in preliminary results.
Dominican president asks new international order
The Dominican Republic’s President, Leonel Fernandez advocated a new international financial order today at the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), capable of putting an end to the speculation linked to food price volatility. That phenomenon joins the crisis of sovereign debt and bank in the Eurozone, Fernandez said at FAO headquarters.
(Latin News and Prensa Latina contributed to this report).
