MEXICANS STAGE HUGE POLL PROTEST!

"No to the damn fraud" was the message carried by many. Mexico's defeated presidential candidate has urged his supporters to use acts of "civil resistance" to press demands for a full recount of the vote.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was addressing hundreds of thousands of people who for the second week running packed Mexico City's main square.
Mr Lopez Obrador has alleged that there was electoral fraud in the 2 July poll.
Results show his conservative opponent Felipe Calderon won by a margin of only 0.57 of a percentage point.
Mr Lopez Obrador told supporters he vowed to start civil resistance to force a recount.
"To defend democracy we are going to begin peaceful civil resistance," the leader of the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) told the crowd gathered in the Zocalo, the main public square in the capital.
He did not give details but said what he called a citizens' committee would meet this week to work out what form this resistance would take.

Lopez Obrador supporters want to keep up the pressure for a recount. Mr Lopez Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City, also called on people to stage another rally in the capital on 30 July.
Supporters and party activists dressed mainly in yellow, the PRD colours, walked several kilometres with shouts of "vote by vote, ballot box by ballot box".
Police officials in the city government, which is run by the PRD, said about a million people took part in Sunday's protest, but other reports put the estimated figure at between 200,000 to 300,000.
Mr Lopez Obrador has presented some 900 pages of alleged evidence of electoral irregularities to the Federal Electoral Tribunal, which must make a ruling by 6 September.

His ruling party rival, Felipe Calderon, has said a complete vote count would be illegal, though the law allows for recounts at specific polling stations where irregularities are reported.
Mr Calderon, of the National Action Party (Pan), has said he will respect the tribunal's decision, but in the meantime is making preparations for government.
He has named two senior aides to head his transitional team, and is planning a victory tour of Mexico.
Electoral observers from the European Union have said they found no irregularities in the vote count.