Mexico: Court Rejects Challenge to Overturn Presidential Election

On August 30, 2012, the Federal Electoral Tribunal(TEPJF) of Mexico rejected the petition to overturn thePresidential election of last July 1.

In a public session, the magistratesdeclared unanimously [es] that the alleged offenses presented by the Progressive Coalition (whose candidate wasAndrs Manuel Lpez Obrador) were groundless; therefore, it was unfair to declare the Presidential election null as the people unhappy by the results wanted.

The Magistrate President of the Tribunal, Jess Alejandro Luna Ramos[es], declared:

A lo largo de mi labor jurisdiccional he tenido la fortuna de resolver innumerables y muy intrincados asuntos, inclusive de tipo similar al de la gravedad que ahora nos ocupa, y en ninguno de ellos he sido influido por otra cuestin que no sea la justicia y el derecho.... [via Global Voices Online]