Lopez Obrador, of the Democratic Revolution Party, garnered 31.59% of votes, election officials said.
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) ranked in second place in numerous polls leading up to the election.
Mr. BEUTTLER: It was a liberal democratic revolution in 1848 that swept most of European monarchies, and most of them lost, the liberal democrats lost.
Leftist candidate Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, had not seen the video, but said he agreed with the theme of change.
But Mr Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, said the election had been fraudulent and that he would file an appeal next week.
The PRI and PAN, and smaller Green Party voted in favor, while the leftist parties led by the Party of Democratic Revolution, or PRD, opposed it.
In many areas the tally was certified by his own centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution, which scored its best-ever result in the vote for Congress.
During the debate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) said the current government was "rotten" and it was time for change.
Dante Delgado, a popular former governor running for a centre-left coalition based on the Party of the Democratic Revolution, Mexico's third main party, polled a respectable 28.3%.
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Even the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution, which makes most such claims, was last month riven by charges of foul play in its internal leadership contest.
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Some Mexican historians still claim that another opposition candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas from the PRD (the Party of the Democratic Revolution), was the real winner of those elections.
His so-called "democratic revolution" which promises a transfer of wealth and power from Bolivia's elite to the mainly Andean Indian poor, has alarmed the more affluent eastern provinces.
It's not a democratic revolution but it's a project, born out of necessity, to rebuild a city from the bottom up, harnessing the skills, resources and intent of its individuals.
Moreover, the opposition National Action and Democratic Revolution parties, plus six minor ones, have now claimed a big step forward in their talks about an alliance for next July's presidential election.
The Iranian population is arguably the most pro-US among any Muslim society in the Middle East, yet the Bush administration seems unready to take advantage and support what could be a democratic revolution.
Whether a Communist Revolution in some places, or an Independence Movement and Democratic Revolution in the United States in 1776 (and France in 1789), a very clear alternative to present rule is proposed.
Now, this is perhaps the toughest test so far because there is one point separating Mr. Calderon, from the Conservative National Election Party, and Mr. Lopez Obrador, from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.
Mexico's conservative opposition, the National Action Party, largely favors a broader opening of the energy business to private investment, while the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution has proposed a more limited opening for areas like refining.
The needed constitutional changes will require a two-thirds majority in Congress, and the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution whose leading light is Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, mayor of the capital and son of the former president dislikes the whole idea.
Mr. Santorum hopes that American financial and moral support for the Iranian opposition will catalyze the simmering democratic revolution there, which in turn would likely tilt the balance of power in Syria once the regime in Tehran was no longer there to support Damascus.
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Nowadays pensions are not explicitly designed to forestall revolution, but democratic governments risk being punished at the polls if they fail to ensure that their citizens enjoy a comfortable retirement.
Microlending has launched a revolution in the provision of democratic finance to those unable to borrow from formal financial markets.
When he was elected president in 1997, Muhammad Khatami, a cleric and a son of the revolution, proposed a strikingly democratic manifesto, full of references to civil society and the rule of law, and promised to improve women's rights.
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