In Mexico, supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have filed a request for a full vote-by-vote recount of last week’s Presidential election. Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon was declared the winner by just over half a percentage point. Lopez Obrador says the elections were marred with numerous mistakes and abuses at at least 50,000 voting stations. On Saturday, Lopez Obrador addressed his supporters at a rally attended by more than a quarter of a million people in Mexico City.

• Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador: “We are going to ask for the elections to be cleaned, we are going to ask for them to count all the votes, vote by vote, voting centre by voting centre.”

Lopez Obrador also called on supporters to gather at electoral offices across the country Wednesday for a massive march on Mexico City. His opponent, Felipe Calderon, cannot be declared president-elect until Mexico’s electoral court rules on the case. But Calderon has already taken congratulatory phone calls from several foreign leaders — including President Bush.