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
Consuelo Reyes-Calderon Consuelo Reyes-Calderon Consuelo Reyes-Calderon, also known as Consuelo Reyes, (September 14, 1904–circa 1986) was born in Costa Rica and became a naturalized American. She was an author and activist, working for the Peoples Mandate Committee for Inter-American Peace and Cooperation and National Woman's Party. She created audio-visual materials, such as film strips and slide presentations with audio. She wrote about Costa Rican and Guatemalan people and culture. Born Consuelo De Jesus Calderon Reyes in San Jose, Costa Rica on September 14, 1904, her mother was Maria Calderon. From 1926 to 1941, Consuelo Reyes-Calderon worked for the "Secretariat of the Apostolado