Monday 17 March 2014

Election Court declares socialist El Salvador's President-Elect

El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal confirmed the officialist candidate Salvador Sánchez Cerén as victor of the 9 March presidential elections and the country's President-Elect, with a difference in votes of 6,364 with the runner-up, the conservative Norman Quijano González, La Prensa Gráfica reported on 17 March. Mr Cerén, a former guerilla fighter, was to become President on 1 June for a term running to 1 June 2019, the daily reported. Óscar Ortiz was to be the country's Vice-President. The election results were signed on 16 March and appeared to be definitive, after the court rejected evidence presented by the opposition ARENA party on alleged electoral fraud. The evidence it stated had not specified or illustrated where exactly fraudulent conduct had occurred. The same daily reported ARENA as bringing more evidence of alleged fraud on 16 or 17 March, including visual recordings showing convicts being let out to vote for the Government candidate. Convicts were not allowed to vote. A vice-president of ARENA, Ernesto Muyshondt, was cited as saying that his party had identified 260 convicts on the electoral roll. Unidentified prison guards were separatedly cited as giving 400 as the number of convicts allowed to vote in the first and second round of the presidential elections, the Salvadorean daily El Mundo reported on 17 March.

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