Ex-Mexican Candidate Names His 'Cabinet'

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A leftist politician who refuses to accept an election tribunal's decision that his opponent narrowly won the presidential election named his ``resistance'' government Cabinet on Friday.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City, named six men and six women to posts in what he calls his legitimate government, aimed at opposing what he calls President-elect Felipe Calderon's ``spurious'' administration.

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``This is not a symbolic government, in name only, or as many think, a shadow Cabinet,'' Lopez Obrador said at an announcement ceremony. ``Quite the contrary, it will be an active government with demands, proposals.''

It is not entirely clear how the parallel government plans to act, however. The only concrete action Lopez Obrador has announced is a nationwide tour starting Saturday and ending on Nov. 19.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6190846,00.html

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1. Obrador & his supporters are heroes.