Hundreds of students take to the streets of Mexico City after election officials confirmed that Enrique Pena Nieto won the country's hotly-contested presidential election.<br/> <br />The protesters are accusing Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party of election fraud.<br/> <br />Reports that Pena Nieto's party paid leading broadcasters in the country to make favourable comments about him in the lead-up to the election sharpened criticism against the front-runner.<br/> <br />There were also accounts of vote buying and illegitimate vote counting in polling stations.<br/> <br />Led by Mexico's "Yo Soy 132" student movement, which some analysts have dubbed "The Mexican Spring," the students march, denouncing the national vote as a fraud.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER, MONICA ALAVON, SAYING:<br/> <br />"I think that today the people have gone out because they are dissatisfied, they feel powerless because we feel there was a fraud committed against us. We feel that our country was sold out and a future was not decided by us or it was chosen by us by them"<br/> <br />45-year-old Pena Nieto will take office in December for a six-year term as president, restoring the party to power that dominated Mexican politics for most of the past century, at times ruthlessly.<br/> <br />Sarah Sheffer, Reuters
