Uncertainty over elections in
Mexico continues

MEXICO, July 6.—The government presidential candidate Felipe Calderón today gained a slight advantage over his opponent Andrés Manuel López Labrador in the count following on from last Sunday’s elections in Mexico.

Calderón, from the government National Action Party (PAN), accumulated 35.6% of the votes, to the 35.59% of López Obrador, nominated by the For the Good of All coalition comprising the Democratic Revolution, the Labor Party and Convergence for Democracy Party, with 97.7% of the votes counted, PL reports.

After the report at 14:31 yesterday, the difference between the two aspirants began to steadily reduce and in the early hours of the morning they resembled a thriller whose ending is known.

According to the IFE reports, the states still remaining are those where opinion polls gave a greater advantage to Calderón, principally in the northeast of the country and the central Guanajuato.

The For the Good of All coalition yesterday exposed a state operation to commit "macro-fraud" to impose Calderón as the next president of the country, and a López Obrador press conference has been announced for 08:30 (13:30 UTC).

The vote count in the 300 constituencies began yesterday morning and will continue uninterrupted until it is completed and, once that point has been reached, Luis Carlos Ugalde, IFE president, will announce the winner.

Roberto Madrazo of the Alliance for Mexico for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Ecologist Green, is in third place, with 22.27% of the votes cast in last Sunday’s elections.