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- From: imaz%leland.stanford.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
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- Subject: Re: More about Mexican elections
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.203832.17031@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 20:38:32 GMT
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- The Mexican government is trying to imposse a fraudulent Governor and Congress
- against the law and the people's will in the state of Michoacan in Mexico.
- On August 13TH, in a clandestine meeting, sorrounded by the army, in
- the basement of unoficial building, without precious and without the presence
- of the PRD representatives, an totally illegal "Electoral College" called
- by the party-state PRI, gave the victory of the elections to the Salinas
- candidate.
- In what constitutes a total violation of the National and state
- constitutions, the PRI-state decided to ommite the legal complains presented by
- the Democratic Revolution Party PRD, and in few minutes decided that the next
- governor of Michoacan is the PRI-state candidate.
- This happens just a week after the PRI rejected its own proposition
- of make a public comparision of the all of the certificates of the elections
- The PRD had accept the proposition adding the necessity of free access to the
- national and international press.
- The people of Michoacan have sourrended the City hall asking for
- respect of their votes and the constitution, and yesterday sunday August 16th
- more than 25,000 people participated in a rally in that same place suporting
- the struggle for democracy.
- Even though independent national and international (mostly americans)
- electoral observers groups denounced an enourmous array of irregularities and
- violations of the law by the PRI-STATE and the enormous amount of legal
- evidence of electoral fraud provided by the PRD, the Mexican PRI-STATE
- decided to continue its ilegal behavior.
- The PRD and a lot of other mexican democrats have decided to continue
- a civic and peaceful movement of resistance to dictatorship and have called
- for a national demostration next Saturday August 29th in the "Zocalo" of
- Mexico City calling for DEMOCRACIA YA! DEMOCRACY NOW!
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