PRD presents legal challenge to elections result

Описание: (10 Jul 2006)
1. Wide shot of Federal District Electoral Office (number 15)
2. Close up of the plate of identification of the Federal District Electoral Office
3: Medium shot of a military man in the roof of the building
4. Wide shot of the Oracio Duarte, representative of the PRD of the legal demand front the IFE, Election Federal Institute
5. Close up of the documents
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ricardo Monreal, Former Governor of Zacatecas state (now PRD supporter)
"Our main demand in this legal procedure against the validity of the results will be in the recount of the votes, vote by vote, square by square (squares that the votes are marked in). "
7. Medium shot of two boxes with many documents inside
8. Wide shot of the PRD (Democratic Revolution Party ) supporters putting many boxes of documents on the table of the room
9. Close up with zoom out of the Andres Perez Velasco, Director of the Federal District Electoral Office
10. Close up of hands counting documents
11. Wide shot of one worker taking out some documents from a box
12. Wide shot of the Andres Perez Velasco giving instructions to the personal
13. SOUNDBITE ( Spanish) Andres Perez Velasco, Director of the Federal District Electoral Office (number 15)
"We received the documents and we will proceed according to the law. Later we will publish the electoral records at the electoral authority's headquarters for the public's information and finally we'll submit it to the tribunal."
14. Wide shot of the PRD's supporters celebrating the began of the legal demand
15. Wide shot of supporters shouting "(if we count) ballot by ballot, the final result is a different one"
STORYLINE
Lopez Obrador, Mexico's leading left wing presidential candidate asked the country's top electoral court late on Sunday to order a ballot-by-ballot recount of last week's election, as his party turned over nine boxes of evidence of alleged fraud and dirty campaign practices.
The 900-page claim alleged that some polling places had more votes than registered voters, the ruling party funnelled government money to conservative Felipe Calderon's campaign and exceeded spending limits, and a software programme was used to skew initial vote-count reports.
Mexico's Federal Electoral Court will review the case, which includes videos, campaign propaganda and electoral documents.
The court has until September 6 to declare a winner.
The legal challenge came a day after Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, held a rally in Mexico City's historic centre and called on his followers to help overturn Calderon's narrow victory.
Obrador isn't seeking to annul the election, but to force authorities to conduct a manual recount of all 41 (m) million ballots.
The law allows a manual recount only for polling places where credible evidence of irregularities exist.
Lopez Obrador's supporters say that applies to at least 50,000 of the approximately 130,000 polling stations.
Election officials said on Thursday that Felipe Calderon beat Lopez Obrador by less than 244,000 votes in the July 2 election - or a margin of just 0.6 percent.
But Lopez Obrador contends some of his votes weren't counted or were voided without reason.
Lopez Obrador's claims also include allegations that President Vicente Fox used government funds to support Calderon, the candidate of Fox's conservative National Action Party.
Fox has denied interfering in the elections, and election monitors from the European Union said they found no irregularities in the vote count.
But fraud allegations strike a sensitive nerve with many Mexicans.

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