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...stinging rebuke in rejecting, by more than 2 to 1, the presidential candidacy of Carlos Duque, the general's longtime friend and business manager. So clear was the electorate's embrace of the opposition, a coalition known as the Democratic Alliance of Civil Opposition and led by lawyer Guillermo Endara, that authorities felt obliged to declare the election null and void. That decision was widely interpreted as an admission by Noriega that given such a lopsided vote, not even he could foist Duque on his country. Vowed Ricardo Arias Calderon, the coalition's candidate for First Vice President: "We will...
...forced Noriega to consult more frequently than usual with the military, the key to his power. Noriega may also be looking over his shoulder more often at rank-and-file members of the PDF , as the general's election analysts concede that significant numbers of uniformed voters chose Endara over Duque. Even Panama's highly influential Roman Catholic Church, which had remained silent throughout the crisis, felt compelled to issue a statement deploring Noriega's effort to "frustrate popular will...
...State Department contradicted a Panamanian government assessment that, based on returns from four of 40 election districts, Noriega's handpicked presidential candidate, Carlos Duque, was leading opposition candidate Guillermo Endara by 80,646 votes...
...vowed to depose him. But General Manuel Antonio Noriega still runs the country, and even though he will not be standing for election on May 7, he looms as the power behind the throne. Polls show that Noriega's handpicked candidate for President, Carlos Duque, trails opposition candidate Guillermo Endara by more than 2 to 1. Yet U.S. officials and opposition leaders are convinced Duque will steal the election. They charge that evidence of government chicanery already abounds: manipulation of voter rolls to keep opponents from the polls, coercion of public employees to vote the government ticket, fraudulent registration practices...