 Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who officially lost Mexico's presidential vote, have set up camps across the capital as they demand a poll recount in the disputed election. Lopez Obrador is reported to have spent the night outside in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza with an estimated 500,000 protesters who had attended a rally on Sunday. Lopez Obrador earlier asked supporters of his Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) to set up camps along the city's Reforma boulevard as part of a campaign of civil disobedience to demand that a top electoral court orders a recount.
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The barrier could block most east-west traffic on one of the main arteries in the city that is home to 20 million people. "We hope that some day people will realise that we were right, and we needed to do this," protester Tirso Vicente told the Associated Press news agency. |