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PUP Will File Election Petition For San Pedro Result
posted (March 20, 2018)
From the day after the March 7th municipal election, we've been hearing about the contested results in San Pedro town.

According to the official result, the returning UDP mayor Danny Guerrero beat his PUP opponent by only 38 votes - while the 6 UDP councillors won by a more comfortable one to three hundred votes.

But, the PUP says there are a number of irregularities with the vote count - and now the party has decided to take an election petition to court. The leader of the opposition told us more today:...

Hon. John Briceno- PUP Leader
"From yesterday the legal advisor gave a presentation to the national executive and the recommendation is that we should challenge it. We believe that something went wrong and we need to make sure that we have all of those doubts cleared. We believe that Andre is the legitimate mayor of San Pedro, that he won that election and that is why we are challenging that election. We hope that we can get a new election for the entire counsel of San Pedro. There have been a lot of inconsistencies. That is why we are challenging the results. Certain boxes were not tallied and there were missing ballots. I think there were about 275 ballots that were unaccounted for, we don't know where those ballots are. So there are a number of inconsistencies that can raise and create doubt as to the legitimacy of that election."

Election petitions have never had much success in court, but this would be the first in memory for a municipal election.

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