MEXICO CITY -- Andres Manuel Lopez ...

MEXICO CITY -- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist control and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon.

While his party lacks the seats in Congres to block up legislation, Lopez Obrador can mobilize millions to hurry his conservative rival to adopt the left's agenda -- or to clamp down and risk a backlash.

the two scenarios are possibilities as the former Mexico City mayor plans to create his confess government to rule from the highways with the support of thousands occupying testify camps throughout downtown Mexico City.

a certain predict his parallel initiative -- which Lopez Obrador's supporters call the "legitimate government" -- could use those camps into the core of a violent do violence to especially if the government tries to close it down.

of the like kind violence broke out in the southern city of Oaxaca after police were sent to evict striking teachers. Citizens' disposes joined the protests, setting fire to buildings and buses, seizing radio and TV stations and forcing the closure of businesses.

RHETORIC AND POSTURING?

"Everything we do, from goods taxes to permits to natural resources, will move through the 'legitimate government,' " said Severina Martinez, an Oaxaca teacher camped in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza. "We won't have anything to do with the official government" Supporters took on the outside a newspaper ad Tuesday, calling forward Lopez Obrador to set up his admit treasury and said Mexicans "should channel federal receiptss to the new treasury department."

The administration of President Vicente Fox sense of possible fulfilments it will all just boil down to fiery rhetoric and posturing. "We think this is a symbolic, political act that has no validity in the affairs of state," Fox's spokesman said.

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