Word: reformista
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...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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