Recount Confirms PRI Victory in Mexico
MEXICO CITY -- With 99.92% of election returns officially counted, Enrique Peña Nieto has been confirmed as the winner of Mexico's presidential election.

Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was ahead of runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by 6.6% of the vote, an outcome in line with preliminary results and a quick count.

The officially tally included individual ballot recounts in more than half of the country's electoral districts.

Lopez Obrador has vowed to challenge the results, accusing the PRI of vote-buying, and said that he would take his complaints through the legal system. He did not immediately comment following the announcement of the official count.

For his part, Peña Nieto told CNN that "I am president by the majority decision of the Mexicans."

If Lopez Obrador, who was the candidate for a leftist coalition, continues his challenge, the process could stretch out for months.

In the 2006 presidential vote, election authorities said the former Mexico City mayor narrowly lost to Felipe Calderon. Lopez Obrador claimed election fraud and never conceded, referring to himself as "the legitimate president of Mexico."



But accusations have arisen of electoral manipulation by the PRI.



Opponents of the PRI say they have video and photo evidence of the party buying votes through thousands of cards that could be redeemed for products at a chain of supermarkets.
