El Salvador Vote Deadlocked With 99% of Precincts Counted
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El Salvador Vice President Salvador Sanchez Ceren held a lead of 6,634 votes as the country’s election chief said the presidential runoff was too close to call and the opposition claimed fraud.
With 99.9 percent of 3 million votes counted in yesterday’s election, Sanchez Ceren of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front had 50.1 percent to 49.9 percent for Norman Quijano of the Arena party, the electoral tribunal said on its website. Tribunal head Eugenio Chicas said the count was still continuing because the board found “inconsistencies” in 14 precincts.