Word: reformista
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While the country was trying to figure out just what had happened, officials of the President's Reformista Party were claiming victory. But so was Guzmán. The wealthy 67-year-old rancher and coffee planter told a news conference: "It is up to the electoral board to declare me the winner. We will not allow the official election results to be altered." Manuel Joaquin Castillo, head of the board, insisted that no one had yet won and at week's end announced that the counting of ballots had resumed. He warned his countrymen, however, that...
...lawyer who had plied the Juárez trade for eight years, moved to Santo Domingo and eagerly awaited the chance to do business there. Now Espinosa is director of the city's leading domestic relations firm (otherwise made up exclusively of members of President Balaguer's Reformista Party...
...three weeks before the balloting, 29 people died and 47 were wounded in political killings, victims of the extreme right and the extreme left. One of the dead: an eight-year-old child, who was killed when guards in a motorcade of President Joaquín Balaguer's Reformista Party fired at rock throwers as it rumbled into a Santo Domingo slum...
...Spain. Similarly, another potential leader, Francisco Caamaño Deó, 37, who was the military commander of the anti-establishment "Constitutionalists" during the 1965 civil war, is reportedly holed up in Cuba or The Netherlands. Balaguer also will have opposition within his own middle-of-the-road Reformista Party, which is split between his supporters and those who favor the election of Vice President Francisco Lora next time around...
...issues and personalities, Balaguer hoped to avoid making the election a national plebiscite on his two-year government and thus avert partisan fireworks. Yet, in the end, the election still came down to a vote for or against Balaguer. A heavy turnout of 1,000,000 voters gave his Reformista party and other pro-Balaguer independents an estimated 90% of both the 77 mayoralties and 488 city council posts that were at stake. An even bigger victory for Balaguer-and for his country-was the honesty of the elections and the absence of any widespread violence...
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