Recount won't help Mexican candidate

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the charismatic former Mayor of Mexico City who narrowly lost last year’s presidential election, has suffered a new defeat. This week, officials of his Democratic Revolution Party announced that Lopez Obrador’s slate had won barely 20% of the votes in the election for delegates to the party’s Aug. 18-19 convention.

The “New Left” wing of the party, led by Jesus Ortega and Jesus Zambrano, were the big winners, pulling in 80% of the vote.

After proclaiming himself the “Legitimate President of Mexico” before hundreds of thousands of supporters gathered in Mexico City last December, Lopez Obrador has been touring the country criticizing the government of Felipe Calderon.

Posted by Héctor Tobar in Mexico City