Showing posts with label Elections 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elections 2015. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2015

Guatemala: Sinibaldi leaves Partido Patriota

Alejandro Sinibaldi was Communications Minister during the actual Government and he left the public charge to dedicate his time for his presidential campaign as the upcoming candidate of the official party. Nevertheless, on Sunday April 19th in a press conference he stated his plans as a politician. 

According to his declarations, the decision of leaving the Party wasn't something recent. 
He didn't made any public appearances for a month and during this time he met with the President to talk about his future. According to Sinibaldi Otto Perez Molina showed respectful and understood the reasons he gave to quit from the official party. On the next days, he will give a press conference to let know about his future in politics, because he claims to have several invitations from different political organizations, congressmen and majors. But, he hasn't decided yet what he will do. 


The Reasons:

Adlelgedly there are differences among the Vice President Roxana Baldetti who was blocking the way to achieve his campaign objectives. He also declared that the latest scandals in which the Vice President was involved were several drops that flooded the glass and he said that he didn't shared anymore the party's criteria.

The scandals which Sinibaldi made reference were escentially the one from Amatitlan's Lake, a 137 million quetzales  project (about $17 millions ) that pretended reduce the water's contamination with a "magical liquid" of dubious origin. The crisis of public health in which there is not enough food, medicine and working material for laundry and medical labs, as well as the most recent one, in which the Vice President might be involved in a band of transnational defrauders. 

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

El Salvador: El Salvador announces a slow process and irregularities in vote counting

After having their elections past March 1st, El Salvador still has no answer about the final results. 

El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced the normalization of the vote counting process. Julio Olivo, the President of the TSE,  called on voters to remain calm as the final vote count could take up to seven days. As they reported that the preliminary count was suspended due to a system failure in the digital electoral database and that the votes would be counted manually. 
Opinion polls in the lead-up to the vote suggested that the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which currently controls 31 seats, had an 11-point advantage over its right-wing political rival the ARENA party. 
According to preliminary reports the FMLN has won 86 of the 262 mayorships of El Salvador in the March 1 elections, including the capital San Salvador.

Eventhough there are man groups and organizations showing their disconfort about the situation, Olivo said in an interview that no political party is going to tell them how to work.

"I'm telling you, you are not going to settle me down and I make you responsible for my personal intgrity" Olivo said. 


The Elections: 
At the beggining of the month,  Salvadoran citizens voted for:
 84 seats in Congress
 262 mayors
 3,000 municipal council members (aprox)
 20 representatives for the Central American Parliament


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