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candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party
(PRD) shows his ink-stained thumb after casting his vote in the
general elections at a polling station in the Mexico City, July 2,
2006. (Xinhua/Reuters, File
Photo) | MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Leftist
protesters backing former Mexican presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador, clashed with security officers, trying to block the door to
president-elect Felipe Calderon's transition headquarters on Thursday.
Elite soldiers of the Presidential Staff and officers
from the Federal Preventative Police, who were guarding the headquarters,
frustrated the plans of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) members.
Gerardo Fernandez Norona, a spokesman for Obrador's
PRD, and Marti Batres Guadarrama, PRD chief in Mexico City, were trying to hang
a sign saying "Illegitimate President and Usurper" on the front of the building.
Obrador and his supporters are waging a campaign,
which they describe as "resisting the imposition of a right-wing candidate,"
alleging that the election that brought Calderon to power was a fraudulent one.
After a scuffle with security officers, some 40 PRD
supporters engaged in a shouting match, chanting "Felipe the Usurper" across the
barriers, while Calderon supporters shouted back "Felipe won" and "keep dancing
for six more years."
Calderon, President Elect and former candidate of the
ruling National Action Party (PAN) won the July 2 election with a slim margin of
0.56 percentage point, and will take office on Dec. 1.
Lopez Obrador has refused to concede defeat, alleging
massive fraud in the electoral process, and said he will not recognize the
incoming administration. Enditem
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