As was becoming more and more predictable, the Electoral Court of Mexico (TEPJF) has declared that
conservative Felipe Calderón has complied with constitutional requirements to be declared the next president of Mexico -- thus
pretty much leading to his taking office. Based on initial reports
all other complaints (such as business groups' funding ads against liberal coalition candidate Lopez Obrador, supposedly illegal)
are being dismissed as well.
Strangely enough, it doesn't look like the protest movement is dying down just yet. They still proclaim the 16 September "National Democracy Convention" which has been variously viewed as a circus of loony activists which will make noise and have no effect, or as a dangerous rebellion which will declare a parallel government and thus destabilize the nation, or as the launching pad for a grassroots social movement to press for needed reforms such as helping Mexico's large population of desperately poor people -- whom the outgoing President Fox neglected to report on in his last report. Comment and gloat away below.