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Before going any further, wouldn't be easier to make an article called Elections in Mexico (2006) and put in just about every single election held in the country?
As of June 2005, most of out state elections arts. are stubs, people link them in the most creative ways (2004 Oaxaca State elections; 2004 Elections in Oaxaca; Election in Oaxaca 2004; Election in Oaxaca, 2004; Election in Oaxaca (2004); (2004) Election in Oaxaca State, etc.) Not to mention the federal ones (2004 Federal Election in Mexico, Mexican federal elections 2005, (2005) presidential election, 2006 Mexican General election, etc.) Ruiz June 30, 2005 00:24 (UTC)
Well, I don't mind the 2nd family name, is just that I tend to side with the "artistic names" when writing articles about Mexican politics (pun intended) for several reasons:
I don't think is partial per se. Both Mexican and foreign media would publish an article about a meeting between "Andrés Manuel López Obrador" and "Vicente Fox" without abandoning neutrality necessarily, is just the way they are known. Think of Bill Clinton and Jean-Paul Sartre listed in the same article. Unbalanced? not really.
Now, regarding the state elections, I just took a look at your super list. I asume that whoever got in during the year 2000 (such as Fox) will leave the office accordingly: Chiapas, Guanajuato, Morelos and the DF. Coahuila will have elections in Sep. 2005.
Terra has 2 interesting dossiers about Mexican elections (one for 2005 [2] and another one for 2006 [3] (check out the mid column in the last one) Ruiz June 30, 2005 06:21 (UTC)
This section isn't bad either. But anyways, I'll remove Monreal and Natividad since they're no longer in the game:
And just in case: Francisco Labastida changed his mind.
Cheers, Ruiz July 1, 2005 02:46 (UTC)
Apparently he won't be able to run anymore as an independent. See here. I'm a bit late to this debate but I'm all for predictable article names for the elections. By the way, is there any particular reason why there are two articles for the 2006 election? -- Rune Welsh ταλκ 19:23, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Since some parties have already decided to go in alliance and those alliances have a name we need to came up with an convention about the name in english to use (Or Spanish would be OK???), for instance the Alianza por el bien de todos or the PRI/PVEM alliance...
Also, there is no need to use all logos because once the parties registered the Alliance they start to use one single logo for the campaing... does someone knows were to download those logos... Due to the IFE's tregua it it difficult for me to find official information (on the parties websites) about the alliances... Abögarp 19:23, January 11, 2005 (UTC)
in the polls section, the poll it supossed to be from Milenio is not form Milenio. Actually, It´s a quotation from another poll company called Arcop.(Please read the article you are linking) Arcop is the "official" PAN´s poll maker. So i think it is not correct to say is Milenio´s if is not. (Excuse me my bad english, i´m sorry)
Pollsters have a public webpage with survey results at: www.opinamexico.org
I was in Cabo in 2000 during the presidential elections and all bars were closed for 48hours. Is this the same for 2006?
People will often purchase many caguamas "40 ozs" before the ban takes affect and then sell them to the neighbors for 7-8 dollars instead of 1.50 on election day. If you are going to be down there on Election Day, stock up a few days in advance.
Here is an update on the bar situation. The various municipalities now have autonomy in the decision. For the most part those that would lose out on the tourism generated by the 4th of July will allow the bars to open. In Tijuana they will be open.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.143.181.216 ( talk • contribs)
There are several remarks regarding PRD's candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador which sound uncannily like the bad press campaign orchestrated in Mexico by competing PAN. Especially at the bottom (citing Ahumada's declarations an supposed Family attack)
My opinion is that the reference to the videoscandals should be completely ommited. I edited the article, and also changed the name of this entry, to make it a bit more accurate
I've seen vandalism all over the internet now, including Wikipedia. Yesterday (Thursday June 29), the wikipedia sites of Felipe Calderon, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Vicente Fox where vandalized proclaiming AMLO the winner of the election to take place on Sunday July 2.
Since the election is clear to be very close, I suggest that we as wikipedians try to prevent declaring a winner before the IFE does so. The official winner will be announced on Wednesday, so I think that the following conditions of valid editing to proclaim the winner should be met before declaring a winner in wikipedia:
1) If all seeminly losing candidates accept their defeat, then we can proclaim a winner. 2) If the IFE declares a winner on July 2 at night with more than 2% of difference and more than 90% of the ballots counted, then we can proclaim a winner. 3) If none of the above is met, then we should wait until Wednesday until the IFE proclaims an official winner.
What do you think?
Hari Seldon 15:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
There should be something in the article saying whether a candidate needs a plurality or majority to win ie will there be a runoff if no candidate wins over 50% of the vote? Homey 03:38, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, I came to the article looking for precisely that information (it looks like the results won't be released till Wednesday). I've added the fact that there is no runoff to the article. Homey 05:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
There is no runoff vote in Mexican presidential elections. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 14:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
First, I'd recomend deleting all references to the internal polls taken by each political party. It's hard to see them as being any more accurate than internal polls taken by the major parties in US elections. Second, they go back way too far in time; I'd sugest that only the 3rd party opinion polls taken within a few days of the poll blackout dates be kept because voters change their minds over time. Jon 13:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be some results for the legislative seats by now, at least for the least competive of the districts? Jon 16:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
The Socialist campaign slogan, "Por el bien de todos, primero los pobres", is translated here as "For the well-being of all, poor people first". But wouldn't a more appropriate, accurate and better-sounding translation be, "For the well-being of all, first the poor"?
But the Mexican stock exchange rose 4.77% today as result of the elections. Tito xd( ?!?) 01:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Let's clean up this edit, please
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Recently several irregularities have been noted on the proces of preliminary results <ref> http://senderodelpeje.blogspot.com/2006/07/imagen-ms-clara.html<ref>. Polling station-level incongruencies, in which several votes have been aded to the rulling party's candidate. While all theese irregularities will be cleared when a recount is made starting Wednesday July 5th, the apparition of theese presents serious doubts to the legitimacy of IFE.
<End cut for cleanup> -- Rednblu 03:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
In the articles current form, for the beginning of parliment, they only sum up to 498; not 500. (The disolution of parliment number is fine.) This would seem to indicate either an error in some of the parties results or else 2 seats left unassigned at the time. (If this were for the US; I'd guess the winning candidate also ran successfully for governor in at least one case; two candidates post humously winning in the same congressional election would be unheard of here.) Jon 13:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
The other Mexican election articles are [Year #] Mexican General Election and not Mexican General Election, year #. Accordingly this article needs renamed to match. This is however further complicated by someone having created a much briefer article called 2006 Mexican General Election that isn't as good as this one. The merge tags don't seem to cover well what really needs to happen which is merge that content into this article but use that articles name. Jon 15:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I added it (in place of a more general current event) and another editor deleted the tag entirely, not even placing a "current" one. The "future election" tag is for both ongoing and future elections. Until the results are final, this is an ongoing election and therefore the future election tag should be included. Jon 18:00, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not even sure if the voting authority or press is releasing which districts they've counted as part of the process; but if they are, it would be useful info to include. It could make a big difference which districts they haven't yet counted on the expected outcome until all the votes are fully counted. The US analogy is it makes a big difference if it's primarily Democratic or Republican areas that haven't been counted fully in a tight election late on election night. Jon 21:49, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Also, to hazard a guess on the ballot-counting order, I think the Federal District and Mexico State ballots got counted fairly early on, and were over-represented in early counts. Everything else has been moderating this influx, and the lack of ballots from that area (which voted lopsidedly for AMLO) coming in late would explain the reason for his total dropping off badly. -- 69.72.99.217 05:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC) Anakin
See [6]. I'd say this deserves a mention somewhere in the article Btyner 02:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
The article mentions that IFE declared Felipe Calderón President Elect, IFE cannot declare President Elect, that is the job of the Federal Electoral Tribunal, even in the case that the election results had not been challenged by Mr. Lopez Obrador. IFE only provides for the official ballot tally. The Tribunal has until September 6 to do so.
Thanks
Why has it taken days for Wikipedia administrators to admit that Obrador lost? Instead of abusing your power, you should face facts and stop omitting major news events on the main page. Tchadienne 02:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
For the record, TRIFE (Tribunal del Instituto Federal Electoral: Federal Electoral Institute Tribunal) doesn't exist anymore. It lost its authonomy a few years ago and became a part of the judicial power; it is now called TEPJF (Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación: Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation). That tribunal is the one that will declare a winner of the election.
Maybe I don't understand how the plurinominal seats are assigned so I might be wrong. I thought plurinominal seats were assigned based on proportional representation, that is, based on the percentage of votes obtained in the general legistlative elections. Yet, how can it be that PAN, having obtained the greatest percentage of votes in the Congress is allocated only 69 PR seats, whereas PRD (and the percentage difference between PAN and PRD is small) is allocated 100? -- Alonso 15:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Two more things: First, the PR seats as presented in the article add up to 245 not 200!!, and from [8] you can get these results for PR seats:
which unfortunately only add up to 192. Does anyone know the real results? -- Alonso 15:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I see exit polls mentioned once in the article but without specifics, citations, results, sources, links, etc.. I would be interested in seeing that kind of info in the article. So far there is only this info in the article,
The current challange to the legitimy of the elections should have an article of its own. The marches that Lopez Obrador has gathered are already historical. Regardless of the decision that the TEPJF makes, the current challange may create governability problems in the future.
I do not want to attach this it to the main page because it would slant the article. Maybe this article can link to the new page under a brief Controversy subheading at the end of the document .
My goal is to gather the position of the two candidates, and the position of international observers.
Then, follow with the list of the most common arguments used to challange the transparency of the election, followed by counter-arguments.
It will take me a few days to gather the information with its proper references.
Can anyone make the list with state recount percentages more presentable? -- A1437053 07:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
We made Wikipedia's home page! We made Wikipedia's home page! We made Wikipedia's home page! -- A1437053 09:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there any particular reason this name is used in the table? It seems to me it would be better to use Felipe Calderón as is used throughout the rest of the article for consistency and clarity. Nil Einne 14:40, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Have there been many calls for electoral reform in Mexico to change to some system other than FPTP (plurality). It would seem to me that this election would emphasise to Mexicans one of the potential disadvantages of FPTP. I know little about Mexican politics but given the nature of Roberto Madrazo's politicial affiliations, I would assume Andrés Manuel López Obrador would most likely have won were some proportional system (such as instant run-off or two part votes) been used as his supporters would have been more likely to support Andrés Manuel López Obrador than Felipe... Nil Einne 14:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
"(in Mexico the President cannot run for re-election)" The sentence is a bit POV. E.g., if the whole Wikipedia is written by Mexicans, they might just say "In USA, the president can run for re-election..." This is POV most probably written by a person who grew up in a country that the President can run for re-election, i.e. most countries; but we still must remain neutral, so I have changed it to "unlike some other countries". Aran heru nar 05:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
(reindenting) I think assuming that people will make the association in their minds regarding reelection in other countries goes a longer way than assuming they know something about electoral systems in the world (i.e. you cannot predict how other people think but it's easier to guess what they know already). I insist this is obfuscation of a simple fact and that too much "digital ink" has been spent on this. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 09:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
This article obviously has a number of non-native English speakers as editors. I am currently trying to bring the text into a more natural form for English readers, including removal of redundancies, simplification of extended sentences, correction of (a few) spelling mistakes, inconsistent use of tense, and other grammar related issues. While no actual change in the meaning of the article is intended, it is possible that I may have misunderstood what was written, and made alterations that do not reflect the original information presented. If you find such an instance, please inform me. Anonymous Wikipedian 01:42, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/25/eng20061125_325062.html Should this be in the article? It's at least been received positively by the head of the lower house Jorge Zermeno... — Nightst a llion (?) 14:11, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
A google search in AMLOs site (www.amlo.org.mx) for "Alianza por el Bien de Todos" gives no hits, while a search for "Coalicion por el bien de todos" gives 26 hits. I believe the grouping originally called itself an "Alliance", but later registered the name "Coalition" (almost certainly to distinguish itself from "Alianza por México"). The copy of the coalition agreement in the PT's page, [10] never talks of the "Alliance", and mentiones the "Coalition" several times (with capital letters). The page should be changed, as should the relevant page in Wikipedia which also misidentifies the name. References to "the Alliance" should refere to the PRI-PVEM alliance, while references to the PRD-PT-Convergencia grouping should be to "the Coalition". Magidin 20:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
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In most articles about elections, a candidate´s home state is the state where he/she has held important positions and not the state where he/she was born. For instance, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, but the articles about the 2008 and 2012 elections state that his home state is Illinois. Given that AMLO was head of government of Mexico City, I think it would be appropriate to change his home state to Mexico City.
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Hi I am trying to find the source for the voter turnout from state to state. I have noticed nobody link it. Could anyone enligten me and find me the source of it? Delta049 ( talk) 14:44, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
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The tone and general comments in this article are biased toward Lopez Obrador. At his instant, I cannot make changes (or suggest them here). Please revisit earlier tomorrow.
Before going any further, wouldn't be easier to make an article called Elections in Mexico (2006) and put in just about every single election held in the country?
As of June 2005, most of out state elections arts. are stubs, people link them in the most creative ways (2004 Oaxaca State elections; 2004 Elections in Oaxaca; Election in Oaxaca 2004; Election in Oaxaca, 2004; Election in Oaxaca (2004); (2004) Election in Oaxaca State, etc.) Not to mention the federal ones (2004 Federal Election in Mexico, Mexican federal elections 2005, (2005) presidential election, 2006 Mexican General election, etc.) Ruiz June 30, 2005 00:24 (UTC)
Well, I don't mind the 2nd family name, is just that I tend to side with the "artistic names" when writing articles about Mexican politics (pun intended) for several reasons:
I don't think is partial per se. Both Mexican and foreign media would publish an article about a meeting between "Andrés Manuel López Obrador" and "Vicente Fox" without abandoning neutrality necessarily, is just the way they are known. Think of Bill Clinton and Jean-Paul Sartre listed in the same article. Unbalanced? not really.
Now, regarding the state elections, I just took a look at your super list. I asume that whoever got in during the year 2000 (such as Fox) will leave the office accordingly: Chiapas, Guanajuato, Morelos and the DF. Coahuila will have elections in Sep. 2005.
Terra has 2 interesting dossiers about Mexican elections (one for 2005 [2] and another one for 2006 [3] (check out the mid column in the last one) Ruiz June 30, 2005 06:21 (UTC)
This section isn't bad either. But anyways, I'll remove Monreal and Natividad since they're no longer in the game:
And just in case: Francisco Labastida changed his mind.
Cheers, Ruiz July 1, 2005 02:46 (UTC)
Apparently he won't be able to run anymore as an independent. See here. I'm a bit late to this debate but I'm all for predictable article names for the elections. By the way, is there any particular reason why there are two articles for the 2006 election? -- Rune Welsh ταλκ 19:23, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Since some parties have already decided to go in alliance and those alliances have a name we need to came up with an convention about the name in english to use (Or Spanish would be OK???), for instance the Alianza por el bien de todos or the PRI/PVEM alliance...
Also, there is no need to use all logos because once the parties registered the Alliance they start to use one single logo for the campaing... does someone knows were to download those logos... Due to the IFE's tregua it it difficult for me to find official information (on the parties websites) about the alliances... Abögarp 19:23, January 11, 2005 (UTC)
in the polls section, the poll it supossed to be from Milenio is not form Milenio. Actually, It´s a quotation from another poll company called Arcop.(Please read the article you are linking) Arcop is the "official" PAN´s poll maker. So i think it is not correct to say is Milenio´s if is not. (Excuse me my bad english, i´m sorry)
Pollsters have a public webpage with survey results at: www.opinamexico.org
I was in Cabo in 2000 during the presidential elections and all bars were closed for 48hours. Is this the same for 2006?
People will often purchase many caguamas "40 ozs" before the ban takes affect and then sell them to the neighbors for 7-8 dollars instead of 1.50 on election day. If you are going to be down there on Election Day, stock up a few days in advance.
Here is an update on the bar situation. The various municipalities now have autonomy in the decision. For the most part those that would lose out on the tourism generated by the 4th of July will allow the bars to open. In Tijuana they will be open.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.143.181.216 ( talk • contribs)
There are several remarks regarding PRD's candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador which sound uncannily like the bad press campaign orchestrated in Mexico by competing PAN. Especially at the bottom (citing Ahumada's declarations an supposed Family attack)
My opinion is that the reference to the videoscandals should be completely ommited. I edited the article, and also changed the name of this entry, to make it a bit more accurate
I've seen vandalism all over the internet now, including Wikipedia. Yesterday (Thursday June 29), the wikipedia sites of Felipe Calderon, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Vicente Fox where vandalized proclaiming AMLO the winner of the election to take place on Sunday July 2.
Since the election is clear to be very close, I suggest that we as wikipedians try to prevent declaring a winner before the IFE does so. The official winner will be announced on Wednesday, so I think that the following conditions of valid editing to proclaim the winner should be met before declaring a winner in wikipedia:
1) If all seeminly losing candidates accept their defeat, then we can proclaim a winner. 2) If the IFE declares a winner on July 2 at night with more than 2% of difference and more than 90% of the ballots counted, then we can proclaim a winner. 3) If none of the above is met, then we should wait until Wednesday until the IFE proclaims an official winner.
What do you think?
Hari Seldon 15:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
There should be something in the article saying whether a candidate needs a plurality or majority to win ie will there be a runoff if no candidate wins over 50% of the vote? Homey 03:38, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, I came to the article looking for precisely that information (it looks like the results won't be released till Wednesday). I've added the fact that there is no runoff to the article. Homey 05:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
There is no runoff vote in Mexican presidential elections. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 14:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
First, I'd recomend deleting all references to the internal polls taken by each political party. It's hard to see them as being any more accurate than internal polls taken by the major parties in US elections. Second, they go back way too far in time; I'd sugest that only the 3rd party opinion polls taken within a few days of the poll blackout dates be kept because voters change their minds over time. Jon 13:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be some results for the legislative seats by now, at least for the least competive of the districts? Jon 16:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
The Socialist campaign slogan, "Por el bien de todos, primero los pobres", is translated here as "For the well-being of all, poor people first". But wouldn't a more appropriate, accurate and better-sounding translation be, "For the well-being of all, first the poor"?
But the Mexican stock exchange rose 4.77% today as result of the elections. Tito xd( ?!?) 01:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Let's clean up this edit, please
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Recently several irregularities have been noted on the proces of preliminary results <ref> http://senderodelpeje.blogspot.com/2006/07/imagen-ms-clara.html<ref>. Polling station-level incongruencies, in which several votes have been aded to the rulling party's candidate. While all theese irregularities will be cleared when a recount is made starting Wednesday July 5th, the apparition of theese presents serious doubts to the legitimacy of IFE.
<End cut for cleanup> -- Rednblu 03:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
In the articles current form, for the beginning of parliment, they only sum up to 498; not 500. (The disolution of parliment number is fine.) This would seem to indicate either an error in some of the parties results or else 2 seats left unassigned at the time. (If this were for the US; I'd guess the winning candidate also ran successfully for governor in at least one case; two candidates post humously winning in the same congressional election would be unheard of here.) Jon 13:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
The other Mexican election articles are [Year #] Mexican General Election and not Mexican General Election, year #. Accordingly this article needs renamed to match. This is however further complicated by someone having created a much briefer article called 2006 Mexican General Election that isn't as good as this one. The merge tags don't seem to cover well what really needs to happen which is merge that content into this article but use that articles name. Jon 15:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I added it (in place of a more general current event) and another editor deleted the tag entirely, not even placing a "current" one. The "future election" tag is for both ongoing and future elections. Until the results are final, this is an ongoing election and therefore the future election tag should be included. Jon 18:00, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not even sure if the voting authority or press is releasing which districts they've counted as part of the process; but if they are, it would be useful info to include. It could make a big difference which districts they haven't yet counted on the expected outcome until all the votes are fully counted. The US analogy is it makes a big difference if it's primarily Democratic or Republican areas that haven't been counted fully in a tight election late on election night. Jon 21:49, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Also, to hazard a guess on the ballot-counting order, I think the Federal District and Mexico State ballots got counted fairly early on, and were over-represented in early counts. Everything else has been moderating this influx, and the lack of ballots from that area (which voted lopsidedly for AMLO) coming in late would explain the reason for his total dropping off badly. -- 69.72.99.217 05:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC) Anakin
See [6]. I'd say this deserves a mention somewhere in the article Btyner 02:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
The article mentions that IFE declared Felipe Calderón President Elect, IFE cannot declare President Elect, that is the job of the Federal Electoral Tribunal, even in the case that the election results had not been challenged by Mr. Lopez Obrador. IFE only provides for the official ballot tally. The Tribunal has until September 6 to do so.
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Why has it taken days for Wikipedia administrators to admit that Obrador lost? Instead of abusing your power, you should face facts and stop omitting major news events on the main page. Tchadienne 02:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
For the record, TRIFE (Tribunal del Instituto Federal Electoral: Federal Electoral Institute Tribunal) doesn't exist anymore. It lost its authonomy a few years ago and became a part of the judicial power; it is now called TEPJF (Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación: Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation). That tribunal is the one that will declare a winner of the election.
Maybe I don't understand how the plurinominal seats are assigned so I might be wrong. I thought plurinominal seats were assigned based on proportional representation, that is, based on the percentage of votes obtained in the general legistlative elections. Yet, how can it be that PAN, having obtained the greatest percentage of votes in the Congress is allocated only 69 PR seats, whereas PRD (and the percentage difference between PAN and PRD is small) is allocated 100? -- Alonso 15:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Two more things: First, the PR seats as presented in the article add up to 245 not 200!!, and from [8] you can get these results for PR seats:
which unfortunately only add up to 192. Does anyone know the real results? -- Alonso 15:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I see exit polls mentioned once in the article but without specifics, citations, results, sources, links, etc.. I would be interested in seeing that kind of info in the article. So far there is only this info in the article,
The current challange to the legitimy of the elections should have an article of its own. The marches that Lopez Obrador has gathered are already historical. Regardless of the decision that the TEPJF makes, the current challange may create governability problems in the future.
I do not want to attach this it to the main page because it would slant the article. Maybe this article can link to the new page under a brief Controversy subheading at the end of the document .
My goal is to gather the position of the two candidates, and the position of international observers.
Then, follow with the list of the most common arguments used to challange the transparency of the election, followed by counter-arguments.
It will take me a few days to gather the information with its proper references.
Can anyone make the list with state recount percentages more presentable? -- A1437053 07:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
We made Wikipedia's home page! We made Wikipedia's home page! We made Wikipedia's home page! -- A1437053 09:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there any particular reason this name is used in the table? It seems to me it would be better to use Felipe Calderón as is used throughout the rest of the article for consistency and clarity. Nil Einne 14:40, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Have there been many calls for electoral reform in Mexico to change to some system other than FPTP (plurality). It would seem to me that this election would emphasise to Mexicans one of the potential disadvantages of FPTP. I know little about Mexican politics but given the nature of Roberto Madrazo's politicial affiliations, I would assume Andrés Manuel López Obrador would most likely have won were some proportional system (such as instant run-off or two part votes) been used as his supporters would have been more likely to support Andrés Manuel López Obrador than Felipe... Nil Einne 14:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
"(in Mexico the President cannot run for re-election)" The sentence is a bit POV. E.g., if the whole Wikipedia is written by Mexicans, they might just say "In USA, the president can run for re-election..." This is POV most probably written by a person who grew up in a country that the President can run for re-election, i.e. most countries; but we still must remain neutral, so I have changed it to "unlike some other countries". Aran heru nar 05:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
(reindenting) I think assuming that people will make the association in their minds regarding reelection in other countries goes a longer way than assuming they know something about electoral systems in the world (i.e. you cannot predict how other people think but it's easier to guess what they know already). I insist this is obfuscation of a simple fact and that too much "digital ink" has been spent on this. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 09:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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http://english.people.com.cn/200611/25/eng20061125_325062.html Should this be in the article? It's at least been received positively by the head of the lower house Jorge Zermeno... — Nightst a llion (?) 14:11, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
A google search in AMLOs site (www.amlo.org.mx) for "Alianza por el Bien de Todos" gives no hits, while a search for "Coalicion por el bien de todos" gives 26 hits. I believe the grouping originally called itself an "Alliance", but later registered the name "Coalition" (almost certainly to distinguish itself from "Alianza por México"). The copy of the coalition agreement in the PT's page, [10] never talks of the "Alliance", and mentiones the "Coalition" several times (with capital letters). The page should be changed, as should the relevant page in Wikipedia which also misidentifies the name. References to "the Alliance" should refere to the PRI-PVEM alliance, while references to the PRD-PT-Convergencia grouping should be to "the Coalition". Magidin 20:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
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In most articles about elections, a candidate´s home state is the state where he/she has held important positions and not the state where he/she was born. For instance, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, but the articles about the 2008 and 2012 elections state that his home state is Illinois. Given that AMLO was head of government of Mexico City, I think it would be appropriate to change his home state to Mexico City.
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Hi I am trying to find the source for the voter turnout from state to state. I have noticed nobody link it. Could anyone enligten me and find me the source of it? Delta049 ( talk) 14:44, 12 March 2024 (UTC)