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06MEXICO4139 2006-07-26 12:58 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Mexico
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MEXICO 004139 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PINR PREL MX
SUBJECT: LOCAL PRD OFFICIALS CLARIFY PARTY POSITION ON 
ELECTION 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with poloffs on July 21, 
Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) deputies from the Mexico 
City Legislative Assembly discussed their party's position 
towards the contested presidential election.  Led by Deputy 
Lorena Villavicencio Ayala, the PRD committee expressed its 
concern that the international community viewed the PRD as a 
party of rebels.  For that reason, local party members have 
been visiting various embassies to clarify the party position 
and to deliver an "informative document" detailing PRD goals 
and justifying its demands.  The deputies asserted the PRD 
was acting within its rights in challenging a close election. 
 They stated that the party does not wish to foment 
instability and will act in accordance with the law.  While 
the main goal of the party is to secure a complete vote 
recount, it would be satisfied if all of the votes from the 
50,000 polling booths (casillas) it has specifically 
challenged are recounted.  The deputies assured us the PRD 
would abide by the Electoral Tribunal's final decision, 
whatever it were, although they could not confirm if their 
candidate for the presidency, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador 
(AMLO), would follow the party line if the court did not rule 
in his favor. End Summary. 
 
2. (U) PRD Deputies from the Federal District Legislative 
Assembly requested a meeting with poloffs as part of a 
broader effort to clarify to the diplomatic community the 
party's position on the presidential election. The group, led 
by Deputy Lorena Villavicencio Ayala, wished to dispel any 
notion that the PRD was acting outside of the law.  Rather, 
she maintained the party is exercising its legal right to 
contest what is a very close election. Citing irregularities 
and alleged procedural infractions by electoral authorities, 
the deputies outlined the party's two major strategies for 
contesting the election. Their first preference is for a 
nationwide recount. The PRD's fallback position is to insist 
on the recounting of votes from the 50,000 ballot boxes it 
has specifically impugned. (NOTE: Mexican law requires that 
where the results in specific ballot boxes are impugned, the 
party presenting the challenge must have made an official 
protest of the results in that ballot box no later than July 
5.  The PRD deputies asserted that in most cases their 
representatives had lodged the appropriate protest by the 
deadline.  END NOTE.) 
 
3. (U) One of the electoral "irregularities" most frequently 
cited by the PRD deputies was that approximately 1.5 million 
votes were annulled by electoral authorities - far more than 
the 240,000 vote margin that separates Calderon and AMLO. 
(NOTE: According to IFE's final count, only 905,000 votes 
were actually annulled.  END NOTE.) The deputies alleged that 
in many cases votes were declared invalid simply because the 
"X" marked on the ballot for a particular candidate strayed 
outside the box next to the candidate's name. They argued 
that in such a tight race, the annulment of so many votes is 
reason to question the election results.  Their written 
report sets forth many other bases for challenging the 
election.  They include allegations that: outside actors, 
such as federal, state, and local government authorities, as 
well as businesses and civil organizations, improperly 
intervened in the campaign; IFE acted partially by not 
halting the "dirty war" of campaign attack ads; the 
preliminary (PREP) count was conducted improperly by IFE so 
as to give Calderon an advantage; official vote tallies were 
tampered with in areas where no PRD representatives were 
present; and IFE illegally declared Calderon the victor when 
only the Electoral Court has that authority.  The PRD report 
further alleges that at specific polling booths, votes were 
received by unauthorized persons, party representatives were 
denied access or expelled without justification, the 
computation of votes often contained errors, and ballot boxes 
were installed in unapproved areas.  While the report itself 
does not allege systematic fraud, one of the deputies present 
at the July 21 meeting told us he believed such fraud took 
place.  He claimed that the PAN appeared to be using the 
"old-style PRI tactics" to manipulate elections, presumably 
referring to ballot box stuffing and the like.  However, he 
joked that the PRI had been more adept at it than the PAN: 
when the PRI rigged past elections, it "won" by a large 
margin, whereas the PAN was only able to orchestrate a slim 
margin for its candidate. 
 
4.  (SBU) Comment: In the wake of AMLO's two large 
demonstrations in Mexico City and his threatened campaign of 
civil disobedience, this meeting appeared to be an attempt on 
the part of the PRD to paint the party in a more moderate 
 
MEXICO 00004139  002 OF 002 
 
 
light. In fact, Villavicencio declared herself and her 
colleagues to be "a new generation" within the PRD, one that 
respects the law and institutions and would abide by the 
decision of the Electoral Tribunal.  The deputies tellingly 
joked that AMLO does not have a detailed knowledge of 
electoral law.  What remained unclear, however, was whether 
AMLO himself would toe the party line if the decision does 
not come out in his favor.  End comment. 
 
 
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