In Lula's first term in Brazil leaders of his Workers Party resorted to buying votes in Congress.

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Mr Lopez Obrador rejected the result, accusing Mr Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, of buying votes and favourable media coverage.

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That's not impossible, as the Zelaya reputation for buying votes is legendary.

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Opponents of the PRI said they have video and photo evidence of the party buying votes through thousands of cards that could be redeemed for products at a chain of supermarkets.

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He said Congress must stop its old game of promising endless subsidies in the hope of buying votes, and instead concentrate on reforms that would induce rapid growth, the best antidote to poverty.

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The trial has now moved on to the politicians accused of buying and selling votes in Congress.

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