Mexico's apparent winner looks ready to rule

[madokie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5292330.stm


With a winner in Mexico's 2 July presidential election yet to be declared, the BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Mexico City speaks to supporters of the conservative Felipe Calderon, who despite being given a narrow lead in the official count seems to be attracting less attention than his rival.

Mr Calderon appears confident he will be president
For the past week Mexicans have been gripped by the story of three fishermen who say they were adrift in the Pacific for nine months. They say they lived off dead birds and saw sharks circling around their boat.

It is tempting to use their alleged experiences as a metaphor for what is happening in the never-ending saga of the still unresolved presidential race.

Talk of dead-duck candidates and Machiavellian characters circling with plots have kept this relatively new multi-party democracy at crisis point for nearly two months

[bullimiami]

1. there is a long dirty history of getting away with corruption

in mexican politics.

so naturally he expects it.