Mexico by:Mexico City’s mayor said on Friday he expects Congress to try to oust him from the 2006 presidential race on minor legal charges, prompting street protests demanding the popular leftist be allowed to run.
A legislative commission was due to vote on Friday on whether the lower house of Congress should strip Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of his judicial immunity so he can be prosecuted on a charge of contempt of court.
If formally charged, the mayor could then be forbidden from running in the July 2006 election, which he is favored to win.(reuters)