Who Won the Mexican Election?  Monday, 23 July 2012 14:20 By
Philip L. Russell, The Rag Blog | News Analysis   • Print   •
Email  Anyone who hasn't been deliberately ignoring the news
knows by now that PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto "won" the
July 1 Mexican presidential election with 19.2 million votes
compared to 15.8 million for the runner-up.  That however isn't
the case, since legally speaking there is a victor in Mexican
elections only when a special electoral court issues an
unappealable ruling that a candidate a) received more votes than
any other and b) the complaints filed against the apparent
winner are without merit. The court is legally required to issue
its ruling by September 6.  Just as occurred in the 2006
presidential election, the candidate who was declared to have
received the second highest number of votes has challenged the
victory of the candidate with the most votes. In both 2006 and
2012, the candidate with the second highest vote total was
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), of the