Politics: Mexico: Leftist loser's angries try to close Stock Market in gesture of election aftermath

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Scotsman's report, by Greg Brosnan, depicts the actions of supporters of the leftist presidential candidate who lost Mexico's election by a very slim margin, but no court has found any other decision on the vote possible, so far.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of leftists screaming election fraud blockaded Mexico's stock market building on Thursday in a demonstration that failed to halt trading but brought tempers closer to the breaking point on the fifth day of mass protests.

The exchange, a symbol of free-market economics in Mexico, stands on the elegant Reforma Boulevard that was seized on Sunday by supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

About 3,000 protesters sat and lay down in front of the gleaming black dome and tower and an adjacent skyscraper housing foreign bank headquarters early on Thursday, preventing employees from entering for most of the morning.

They left around 11 a.m. (1600 GMT), jeering at workers lining up to get inside and threatening to return on Friday.

"We're leaving now. This was a show of what we can start to do," said Graco Ramirez, a senator-elect from Lopez Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD.

This is obviously an attempt to seize govt, involving even at least one Senator, who should be thrown out of office for attempting to sidestep the democratic process of voting from which he benefited but the benefits of which he wants to deny to other winners. The effort gives every appearance of seeking to replace democracy with mob rule. Mexico is in for a ruff ride because of leftist impatience.

-- Politicarp