Hipólito Mora, a former ‘self-defence’ group leader seeking election this June, reacts to the murder of fellow vigilante leader-turned mayoral candidate Enrique Hernández Salcedo.
“When politics is weakened, it is the people who suffer because they lose the one tool for social change that is in their hands. We all know what the absence of democracy is; we know what it is to suffer under a dictatorship. For this reason, although weakened, we value and respect democracy.”
Chilean Senator Isabel Allende Bussi, upon assuming the presidency of the Partido Socialista (PS).
“My party remains convinced that a recount would have proven beyond any shadow of doubt that the electoral processes had been compromised and the PPP/C would have won.”
Guyana’s defeated president Donald Ramotar.
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