Leftist loser Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is now threatening to form a parallel leftist government to rule the left half of Mexico, apparently. The balkanization of Mexico? A megalomaniac who cannot put the good of his country above his own egotistical need to be president? Just a sore loser? Maybe all of those. The election court is expected to release results of the limited recount tomorrow, and may actually rule on the election then as well. AMLO has promised not to accept the legal ruling of the court, however.
The electoral court is widely expected to reject Lopez Obrador's demand for a full recount and most analysts expect it eventually will confirm pro-business former energy minister Calderon as president-elect.
But Lopez Obrador, a former Indian-rights activist who wants to overhaul Mexico's political and economic systems to favor the poor, has vowed to prevent Calderon from taking office on December 1.
He says that if Calderon is named president without a full recount, he will continue street protests, which have caused traffic mayhem in Mexico City, and disrupt President Vicente Fox's Sept 1. state of the nation address to Congress.
On Sunday, he told supporters to prepare for a debate at a party convention next month on where to take their fight next.
He said leftists, who will convene in Mexico City from September 16, could vote for him to head a civil resistance movement in opposition, or elect him leader of a leftist government in parallel.
"They are going to mock us, laugh at us and say we are crazy to convoke the national convention," Lopez Obrador told supporters in the city's central Zocalo square.
"We are going to create our own institutions. … Sovereignty lives in the people, the people rule," he said.
Lopez Obrador led opinion polls at the start of the campaign but slipped behind after Calderon called him a danger to the country and likened him to fiery Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
I still want to see where the money is coming from for all of AMLO's antics. Want to bet they come with a Venezuelan postmark?
Mark In Mexico has a lot more on how things are unraveling down there in Qaxaca. We'd best be building that fence, folks.
