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      "date": "2006-10-03",
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      "title": "Mexico\u2019s 2006 Elections",
      "summary": "Mexico held national elections for a new president and congress on July 2, 2006. Conservative Felipe Calder\u00f3n of the National Action Party (PAN) narrowly defeated Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in a highly contested election. Final results of the presidential election were only announced after all legal challenges had been settled. On September 5, 2006, the Elections Tribunal found that although business groups illegally interfered in the election, the effect of the interference was insufficient to warrant an annulment of the vote, and the tribunal declared PAN-candidate Felipe Calder\u00f3n president-elect. PRD candidate L\u00f3pez Obrador, who rejected the Tribunal\u2019s decision, was named the \u201clegitimate president\u201d of Mexico by a National Democratic Convention on September 16. The electoral campaign touched on issues of interest to the United States including migration, border security, drug trafficking, energy policy, and the future of Mexican relations with Venezuela and Cuba. This report will not be updated. See also CRS Report RL32724, Mexico-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress, by Mark P. Sullivan and June S. Beittel; CRS Report RL32735, Mexico-United States Dialogue on Migration and Border Issues, 2001-2006, by Colleen W. Cook; and CRS Report RL32934, U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications, by M. Angeles Villarreal.",
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