2004 – Page 169

Bulletin No. 9 of the JCE showed that the minority parties approved by the electoral board made up only 0.6% of the valid votes cast. Some 19,594individuals voted for these lesser-known parties, each of which received less than 3,700 votes apiece. Each of the eight minority parties that presented their own presidential candidates received RD$5 …

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The local press is telling the stories of the attempts at fraud that kept Dominicans in suspense on Sunday evening, after the polling stations closed nationwide. With the observers aware of the results of the three exit polls, the Dominican Republic lived through four tense hours as citizens awaited the outcome of the election. The …

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President-elect Leonel Fernandez says that his top priority at the start of his government will be to confront the economic and social crises that have beset the country. He spoke of the need to stabilize the economy and bring prices down. “We will give priority to lowering prices, but this needs to be based on …

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Every newspaper in the country headlines the results of yesterday?s voting: Leonel Fernandez is the President-elect. And somebody missed out on a RD$10-million bet. According to the Diario Libre, Fernandez won the first round of voting and President Mejia was ?magnanimous? in conceding defeat without any excuses. Hoy newspaper reported that JCE Bulletin No. 6, …

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The Central Electoral Board was the scene of tension and accusations last night and a very slow count of the votes. At 6:30 in the afternoon, the JCE posted its Bulletin number 0 in order to check the communications links with the local Election Boards. JCE president Luis Arias told the country that the voting …

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According to the El Caribe and Hoy, voting was massive, and the ambassadors, delegates and other foreign observers congratulated the Dominican people for their good behavior during the election process. The chief justice of the JCE, Luis Arias, commented that in spite of a few violent outbreaks voting was normal and very positive. Former President …

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For the first time in Dominican politics, absentee ballots were cast in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Spain. According to reports in the Listin Diario, voting in New York City was massive at the 16 polling stations in that city. According to Jose Fernandez, the president of the Electoral Board in New York, ?Everything …

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In spite of the proclaimed success of yesterday?s electoral exercise, three deaths were directly attributed to the voting process, while 11 others were injured. Today?s papers say that the three dead were all political activists for the two principle parties in these elections. Two of the dead were PRD party supporters and the third was …

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Guido Gomez Mazara, the controversial former legal advisor to President Hipolito Mejia, and the man in charge of the Mejia campaign in the east, is in the news today for an altercation that took place between him and Juan Francisco Melo, an assistant to La Romana?s Mayor Jose Reyes. At around noon yesterday, according to …

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On yesterday?s election day, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) ruled to shut down the TV stations RNN (Channel 27), Telecentro (Channel 13), Telemicro (Channel 5) and Digital 15 and 33, for the transgression of having broadcast campaign messages, which is prohibited by Electoral Law as of 24 hours prior to the election. The stations chose …

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