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
Homero Niño de Rivera the administrations of presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon. He collaborated with Vicente Fox in the presidential campaign, then within his government was Director of Information at the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (2001-2003), Director of Strategic Planning of the Secretariat of the Interior(2004-2005) and Corporate Communication Manager of PEMEX (2005-2006) In the administration of President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, he was Director of Social Communication of the Secretariat of Energy(2006-2007); then director of Social Communication of the Secretariat of the Interior (2008-2009) and Executive Coordinator of the Directorate General of PEMEX. The day October 31, 2015 took office as the