Mexican election authorities Wednesday annulled the results in last month’s hotly contested vote for mayor of Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, President Felipe Calderon’s home state, San Fransisco Chronicle reported.
The reason was not tied to allegations of widespread intimidation by drug gangs or other corruption.
The reason was that Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Marquez, in a major bout with Philippine fighter Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas last month, wore trunks with the emblem of a Mexican political party – the resurgent Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
The welterweight match was broadcast worldwide – the day before the vote in Michoacan. The PRI won in Morelia and almost everywhere else in Michoacan – an election seen as crucial because it was the last statewide vote before next year’s presidential race and a test of PRI’s comeback.
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