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July 9, 2012

Thousands Protest Alleged Fraud in Mexico Vote 
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Mexico's electoral board has confirmed the victory of PRI candidate
Enrique Peña Nieto in last week's presidential vote. Peña Nieto
belongs to the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, the party that
ruled Mexico from 1929 to 2000. His chief rival, the leftist Andrés
Manuel López Obrador, has accused the PRI of electoral fraud and has
vowed to challenge the results in court. On Saturday, López Obrador led
a march of tens of thousands of people in Mexico City to protest the
election results and demand a government probe.

 

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