Mexico's contested presidential election result giving victory to conservative candidate Felipe Calderon has not been changed by recounts and annulments at some polling stations, electoral court judges said today.
Felipe Calderon
The court has not yet ruled on all of the legal challenges presented by leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who claimed massive fraud in the July 2 vote, but early signs indicated it would rule against him.
Two of the court's seven judges said recounts and annulments ordered in the legal complaints that they handled had made little or no difference to the original results.
Calderon, a former energy minister from the ruling National Action Party, won the election by just 0.58 of a percentage point or 244,000 votes, the initial result showed.