Lopez Obrador, of the Democratic Revolution Party, garnered 31.59% of votes, election officials said.
But then Georgia, fresh from a democratic revolution, introduced the lowest flat tax yet: 12%.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frank Church is the Democrat who ran for president in 1976 Democratic primaries and was defeated in the Reagan Revolution.
Snowe was elected to the Senate with 60 percent of the vote during the Republican revolution of 1994, filling the seat of longtime Democratic Sen.
Over that time, the old establishment in Washington has been pushed aside, starting with Ronald Reagan's conservative sweep into Washington in 1980, followed by the Bill Clinton years, the Newt Gingrich revolution in the House in 1994, and the Democratic comeback of 2006.
In 1979-80, research and hearings by the Joint Economic Committee under the Chairmanship of Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen laid the groundwork for the supply-side revolution that freed the U.S. economy from the stagflation of the 1970s and led to twenty years of strong growth.
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Yet for a Social Democratic party traditionally wedded to fortifying the welfare state, they constitute a mini-revolution.
With strong ties to the state's all-important gaming industry, Ensign knocked off an incumbent Democratic congressman in 1994, and he has been a reliably loyal member of the Republican Revolution ever since.
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