While the majority of the losing candidates in July’s elections have moved on to newer pursuits, former Jalisco Governor Alberto Cardenas has almost single-handedly waged an obdurate crusade to annul the result of the close contest for Guadalajara mayor. But the battle, it appears, has entered its final throes.
Just hours after Ramiro Hernandez of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed victory on July 1, Cardenas of the National Action Party (PAN) was contesting his defeat. Hernandez won 38 percent of the vote to Cardenas’ 34 percent but the popular ex-governor (1994-2000) has insisted that the electoral process was tainted with multiple irregularities.
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