ARENA Accepts Electoral Defeat
After Supreme Court of Justice rejects the appeal of vote by vote recount, Arena accepts electoral defeat.FMLN's Sánchez Cerén won presidential elections with 50.11% of the vote, defeating San Salvador Mayor Norman Quijano (49.89%) of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had declared Sánchez Cerén the winner on March 16, but Quijano’s party filed an appeal, claiming voting irregularities. The TSE ruled there was “no basis” for the appeal.
ARENA appealed then to the Supreme Court, seeking a manual recount of the votes. But the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, in a split decision yesterday evening, rejected the appeal presented by ARENA.
The resolution of appeal dismissal was supported by the magistrates Florentin Melendez, Sydney Blanco and Eliseo Ortiz, while Belarmino Jaime and Rodolfo Gonzalez voted to study the request.
ARENA accepts electoral defeat
ARENA in an official press release announced that they accept and abide by the electoral result of March 9th, 2014.
"We abide by the decision of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice declaring inadmissible the action presented by our Party requesting the recount" reads the press release made public yesterday around 5:00 pm (El Salvador Local time)
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