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05-20-2009, 04:30 PM
The Constitutional Revisory Assembly voted unanimously yesterday on Article 237 that rules that presidential, congressional and municipal elections will be held all at the same time. "The polls will open on the third Sunday of May every fourth year to elect the President, Vice President, legislators and municipal officials." Advocates of the single election year model argued against political campaigning being drawn out over the four years. The legislators ruled that in order to unify the campaigns, the legislators and municipal authorities voted in in 2010 would stay on in their jobs through 2016, instead of 2014. Legislative and municipal elections will still be held separately and independently.
The legislators also ruled that 50%+1 of the vote is needed to elect a President, and if a candidate does not receive this, then a second round election between the two leading candidates needs to be held on the third Sunday of the month of June of the same year.
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The legislators also ruled that 50%+1 of the vote is needed to elect a President, and if a candidate does not receive this, then a second round election between the two leading candidates needs to be held on the third Sunday of the month of June of the same year.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)