In a second press conference from the JCE, in the presence of the nine judges, at ten thirty, Luis Arias, president of the JCE spoke of his farewell to the observers in a press conference held. Instead of announcing the first bulletin results with the first numbers of the poll, the president of the JCE used the opportunity to speak of the vocation for transparency that led the court to invite the many observers. ?We are in the presence of many friends, members of electoral organizations of Central America and the Caribbean, and from other areas of the world, I believe that electoral observation should be a good custom and in no moment should it be seen as a signal of lack of confidence or questioning of an electoral system.? Electoral observation is a technical matter, he explained.
Arias spoke extensively about the observers and the program and the philosophy of the observation movement. And thanked them for being present and that it may not be the last time that they visit and that the ties continue. And we wish that your visit may happen again, he said in his good bye words to the observers.
Director del Interamerican Institute of Human Rights, Roberto Cuellar, took the stage to exhort to prevent any kind of violence and praised the Dominican people. Dominican people have proven they want their elections to become a regular practice, he said.
But there was no statement of the first bulletin with the results, despite preliminary results circulating by cell phone and internet of the comfortable lead of Leonel Fernandez.
Arias spoke extensively about the observers and the program and the philosophy of the observation movement. And thanked them for being present and that it may not be the last time that they visit and that the ties continue. And we wish that your visit may happen again, he said in his good bye words to the observers.
Director del Interamerican Institute of Human Rights, Roberto Cuellar, took the stage to exhort to prevent any kind of violence and praised the Dominican people. Dominican people have proven they want their elections to become a regular practice, he said.
But there was no statement of the first bulletin with the results, despite preliminary results circulating by cell phone and internet of the comfortable lead of Leonel Fernandez.
