MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's leftist pre...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's leftist presidential candidate promised forward Sunday to maintain protest camps that have paralyzed downtown Mexico City until at least September, unles the nation's top electoral court orders a total particularize in the still-disputed election.

Settling in for a in extent battle, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told supporters who launched the assert camps two weeks ago that "we could be here for years" if the tribunal does not grant his demand for a replete recount. He also promised to spark a national leftist change at a Sept. 16 convention.

The camps have brought Mexico City's cultural and financial center to a near standstill, forcing workers to hike to their do job-works and causing traffic jams across the city.

The protester are angry at an official on the other hand still uncertified vote count that gave the conservative ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon a slim lead in the July 2 election.

"There's the same decision that we've made from the start," Lopez Obrador said. "We will not allow the imposition of an illegitimate government"

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