Guadalajara -
Mexico's firebrand leftist politician, never short on words, came roaring out of the gates once again today, claiming the country's Supreme Judicial Court freed Florence Cassez on Wednesday under pressure from president Enrique Peña Nieto and the newly installed PRI administration.
Last week Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the ruling a "barbarous injustice" to Mexicans. Today he charged that EPN "wasn't far removed from the legal process; he wanted to curry favor" with France.
In November AMLO founded the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (MORENA), the left-oriented National Regneration Movement, after losing the July 1 presidential contest to Peña Nieto by a little less than 7%. In 2006 he lost the election to former president Felipe Calderón by a hair, and refused to concede for many weeks, nearly precipitating a constitutional crisis.
Immediately after the ballots were counted last summer, López Obrador charged electoral fraud. Among other claims, he alleged that his opponent bought votes with Soriana gift cards. Soriana is Mexico's biggest grocery chain and its largest retailer. An amused media quickly dubbed the affair Soriana-gate, but it went nowhere. On Aug. 30 Mexico's election court rejected the challenge and confirmed Peña Nieto as the winner. Mexican court rejects leftist bid to void July 1 election; end of the road for PRD, Manuel López Obrador
López Obrador may be right in his latest conspiracy analysis, but at least there's a positive side to it: Mexico's getting a new elite paramilitary force for the bargain.
Anyway, MGRR doesn't believe López Obrador is really all that upset about the SCJN ruling. Rumor has it that he falls to sleep every night listening to this patriotic lullaby - played by his favorite band:
Jan. 23 - No justice for Mexicans in Florence Cassez ruling
June 11 - Supreme Court will again review Cassez case, under continuing pressure from France
Sept. 9 - López Obrador breaks with leftist coalition, forms new party and calls for civil disobedience
Sept. 8 - Mexico awaits a show of AMLO muscle, as candidate pursues final legal challenge
Aug. 31 - Manuel López Obrador is still in the ring, and still slugging
July 15 - Spain's El País blasts López Obrador
July 11 - Memo to Andrés Manuel López Obrador: "¡Ya basta, señor!" (Give it a REST, sir)
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