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Star rub, Glossap, DAbshit, Glossop, Derbyshire Sanchez, Workers • ]I-1 every a MidLary and disputed results.
Rail beal real war PRT, tion districts.
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quickly, would be.
and the official Then they offered 'estimates', partial results based.
protests were given, rural add sales Fri 6.45am at given by the WelC opposition parties. formations opposition lollowing (PAN-the for t-we Mexicay for the CP) 6%; for 3.5%;
the 15%, PSUM and the PRT Democrats the King curacy.
tall. Speaker was massive fraud?
Ad-Hoc Comcites muse country HOUI stations opened, poll watchers sent. They ballots in them. Below we reproduce an interview with Edgar Fourth International. striking political breakthrough made by the PRT in its election campaign. It's more inan a week now since the elections and the still published only fragmen- the apparently Since the polls closed, a of figures and percentages has been ragopposition including the facilities to tota the results trom significant number of pollIng stations in various elecThese totals published quite along estimates, based on them, of what the final outcome As for the government party, the PRI, they first kept quite but without indicating on what specific they were Finally, the pressure increased and the multiplied, Ine results for some districts but only TOT districts, which should take the longest to up than for others. Needless to say, the figures for government markedly different than those released by the Could you explain preciseothers he opposition gores gave the esummates. For the PRI, 60%; for the ParAccion Nacional traditional party), 25%; United Socialist Party (PSUM.
the PRT, the Democratic Party, 3%.
DASS ot its 'estimates', the PRI claims about 5%, and Social 2% each. All these percentages reier the presidential vote. The vote for the senators and deputies is much more difficult to estimate with acSo, do you think that there That's a tradition of the Mexican political system. There was a lot of fraud, on the polling day itself. In Puebla and in day the city or ruedla ilsell, which is one of the largest of polls were installed an a u before the polling without being pre already had a leader of the PRT (Revolutionary Party) the Mexican section of the Sanchez explains the In a lot of rural districts, the PRI by itself organised the 'vote' and 'count'. There are crude 'sophisticated'. But would take too long to list PRo Cool shape is the . coming out We now are ical artis the political parties regard this as an accomplished fact. The government does as well despite refusal to release the results Our organisation now considered the fourth largest party in the country. Among the manipulations going on now is the shifting of some vote to the Social Democrats, make it look as if we are only the fifth largest. But this is basically a silly game.
The campaign not only made the PRT and its program known IN laid the basis the entire country.
La Ted national which in country large and decentralised Mexico represents qualitative forward now have organisations in 29 of the 32 states. Innumerable nuclei of sympathisers are working More than 4,000 of these sympatchers her spent the watchers / spent the day at the polling stations kept scrupulous counts, which they relayed That is one of the most Our ciccuoll offices tangible signs of our increased support Our biggest failing up to now has been our conservatism about recruiting We have not opened the doors of the organisation wide enough for those who participated in the campaign and want to come into the party A lot of people today consider themselves members of whom have not yet real members. They are HulliOus today than the actual members of the party. The challenge that faces us in the next weeks and months is to turn this situation around, to bring these activists into our ranks The tasks and responsibilities that fall on us toare incomparably creater thar they were before this campaign. To ) LIC SLIC gles of the workers and the who have been hard hit by the government's policies, to represent these masses at the national level and in parliaand people. ment, build sondarily COUN rades in Central America, Above, scenes from the PRT eve-of-poll march and rally 'for a peasants government which attracted 50,000 The PRT aot one million votes.
Mass to build the party of need, for all these tasks com- revolunonists tnal the ex- these forces are ploited people of Mexico desperately needed.
January 1848 that, 'The
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