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Caribbean & Central America - March 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
Electoral results up in the air in El Salvador amid vote-count debacle
Uncertainty hangs over the outcome of the legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador on 1 March. The reputation that El Salvador’s supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) had established, as one of the most efficient and reliable electoral authorities in the region, has been tarnished by a vote-count farce. Ten days after the elections were held, the TSE has still failed to release any official results. Not since the 1992 peace accords has the TSE failed to release preliminary results but computer failings compelled the body to move directly to the final scrutiny – and this is proving to be very slow. The country’s political parties have called for the president of the TSE, Jorge Olivo, to be sacked but for the main they have shown remarkable patience, with no accusations of fraud forthcoming.
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