Aristy maintains lead

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According to the sixth bulletin released by the PRSC voting commission, Dominican Municipal League (LMD) head Amable Aristy Castro continues to lead the count in the PRSC primary election with 59.47% of the vote and 76% of the voting stations counted. These results almost certainly guarantee that Aristy will win the PRSC primaries, but candidate Eduardo Estrella is not giving up so easily. Through his campaign manager Joaquin Ricardo, Estrella is asking for the counts at certain voting centers, with 600 or more votes, to be annulled because of what he calls "irregularities". Diario Libre quotes Rogelio Genao who explains that it is impossible for an electoral college to produce more than 600 votes in an eight-hour period yet some have 1,900 votes, which would be equivalent to one vote per second. Genao says that those bulletins, including the ones from the provinces where Estrella won, should be discarded. Aristy says that once he is announced as winner he will visit the grave of the late PRSC leader Joaquin Balaguer and then make a pilgrimage to Higuey to thank the Virgin of Altagracia.

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