Calderón Touts Law and Order
 Wire services - El Universal
| | Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party, PAN, and possible winner of the last July 2 presidential elections, gestures during a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 25, 2006. (AP/Marco Ugarte) |
Conservative candidate Felipe Calderón, who holds a narrow lead in the still-disputed presidential race, struck a more law-and-order stance in the face of street protests that have tied up the capital and Oaxaca City. "My first responsibility as president will be enforcing the law," Calderón told a meeting of businesspeople Wednesday in the central city of Guanajuato.
Calderón had focused his few public speeches on anti-poverty themes since the July 2 election, in which official vote tallies show him beating leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador by a margin of less than 1 percent.
But with traffic-snarling protest camps in downtown Mexico City approaching the one-month mark, and sometimes-violent demonstrations linked to a teachers´ strike in Oaxaca stretching into a third month, Calderón appeared eager to tap into a growing frustration with the unrest.
"The primary responsibility of the government is enforcing the law, and respect for citizens´ rights," Calderón said Wednesday. "Neither commerce, nor tourism, nor industry, nor services con prosper if the law is not enforced." |
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