Some politics

Mexicans don't like it very much, when foreigners make comments about their politics. So I won't do that. But it should be allowed to write something about the elections that were helt the weekend before.

Honestly, for the presidential elections there were only two real candidates: Felipe Calderón and Manuel Obrador (or to be precise: Felipe De Jesus Calderón Hinojosa and Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador). One candidate for the PAN (Partido Acción Nacional) and the other for the PRD (Partido de la Revolución Democrática) and other centre-left parties.

Before the elections Calderón was the favourite. Well, maybe just here in Puebla where there are a lot of foreign companies and the people are even more catholic than in the rest of the country. The actual result was quite a surprise for the people (here). 35.88% for Calderón compared to 35.31% for Obrador. It seems that although almost the whole (rich) North of Mexico voted for Calderón, Obrador has a lot of supporters in the (poor) South. While Calderón promised to create new jobs by reducing obstacles for (foreign) companies, Obrador's program is a more social one.

But if you think that was it: wrong, wrong, WRONG! Obrador claimed irregularities during the counting of the votes. Now the whole case will end in front of the Surpreme Court. Until September they have to investigate the whole thing but it seems that Calderón is to be the new president. He probably will succeed Vicente Fox who is president now.

BTW, Goerge W. Bush was one of the first who congratulated Calderón being the new president. How come...?;-)*

And don't forget there is still a vacabulary test waiting for you!

*This isn't Mexican politics so I can be a bit ironic.