Mexican general election, 2006 election, resulting in a narrow margin of 0.58 percentage points of victory for Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (PAN). Calderon's victory was confirmed by the Federal courts on September 5, 2006, and he was declared President-elect of Mexico. However, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PRD), and his party, alleged irregularities in over 30% of the country's polling stations, and still after an unsuccessful judicial appeal of election results the PRD continued to call for street protests. The IFE declared at 11:00 pm on July 2, 2006 that the statistics yielded by the official quick count indicated that the presidential election was too close
Ron Calderon Ron Calderon Ronald Steven Calderon (born August 12, 1957 in Montebello, California) is a former Democratic California State Senator from the 30th Senate District. He was elected to the Senate in 2006. Calderon attended Montebello High School, graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. He then graduated from the Western State University of Law. Calderon served as a manager in the manufacturing industry, a mortgage banker, and a real estate agent. Senator Ronald Calderon is the second of his family to serve in the senate and the third to hold a