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Weekly Report - 05 March 2015 (WR-15-09)
EL SALVADOR: Voting fiasco but no fraud
Four days on from the 1 March legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador there are still no official results whatsoever. Indeed, it could be up to another two weeks before the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) publishes the final results. A computer failure forced the TSE to abandon releasing preliminary results and to move straight to a final scrutiny. Despite the chaos surrounding the count, all of the country’s political parties have so far behaved responsibly. There have been no accusations of fraud, although the longer the count takes the more the credibility of the electoral process will suffer, and the president of the TSE, Julio Olivo, stoked tension by claiming that “sabotage” lay behind the bungled transmission of electronic votes.
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