What was happening yesterday is representatives from Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's PRD party were objecting to practically every, you know, packet of votes that were coming in in heavily PAN areas.

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PRD's dour but well-known Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, a twice-defeated runner, now mayor of Mexico city.

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PRD's Mr Cardenas has been slipping in the polls, thanks to his unimpressive running of Mexico city.

ECONOMIST: The institutional evolutionary party