Gold9472
09-01-2006, 09:58 PM
Leftists disrupt opening of Mexican parliament
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Leftists_disrupt_opening_of_Mexican_09012006.html
Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Friday September 1, 2006
Mexico City- Lawmakers loyal to a leftist who claims he won Mexico's presidential election disrupted the national parliament's opening session Friday, forcing its suspension. Members of Andres Lopez Obrador's Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD) occupied the speaker's podium, waved Mexican flags and shouted "Obrador, Obrador" as they prevented outgoing President Vicente Fox from giving his farewell speech to a joint session of both houses.
Lopez Obrador claims he was robbed of victory in July 2 presidential elections after official counts showed him losing to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than one percentage point.
During Friday's tumult, PRD lawmakers accused Fox of treason and took up Lopez Obrador's calls for a recount of the nationwide presidential voting.
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Leftists_disrupt_opening_of_Mexican_09012006.html
Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Friday September 1, 2006
Mexico City- Lawmakers loyal to a leftist who claims he won Mexico's presidential election disrupted the national parliament's opening session Friday, forcing its suspension. Members of Andres Lopez Obrador's Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD) occupied the speaker's podium, waved Mexican flags and shouted "Obrador, Obrador" as they prevented outgoing President Vicente Fox from giving his farewell speech to a joint session of both houses.
Lopez Obrador claims he was robbed of victory in July 2 presidential elections after official counts showed him losing to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than one percentage point.
During Friday's tumult, PRD lawmakers accused Fox of treason and took up Lopez Obrador's calls for a recount of the nationwide presidential voting.