MEXICO CITY (AFP) – As many as 400,000 people turned out to protest what they said was a fraudulent conservative victory in Mexico’s presidential election, which the leftist candidate challenged in court, organizers said.

“What we are requesting is that the votes be recounted so that our triumph be demonstrated,” said leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, insisting he would demonstrate in court the July 2 election was plagued with irregularities.

He made it clear he was taking his protest both to the courts and to the streets.

Hundreds of thousands of his supporters massed on Mexico City’s downtown Zocalo Square to protest what the outcome of the balloting that gave conservative Felipe Calderon, of the ruling National Action Party (PAN,) the narrowest victory ever in a Mexican presidential election. And the crowd continued to grow.

“It was a massive fraud, those right-winger sure know how to cheat,” said Angel Farfan, 60, as the crowd chanted “Obrador president,” and hold up banners that proclaimed: “No to bloody fraud.”
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