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01-16-2008, 06:10 PM
Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman is calling on the political parties to engage in "civil and polite" campaigning in the run up to the upcoming presidential elections. Castanos Guzman made this statement to reporters as he prepared to open the "official" campaign today, 16 January. The JCE chief magistrate said that he hoped that any highly provocative and heated exchanges between candidates would be tempered with moderation and civility as the campaign gets under way. Castanos Guzman expressed confidence that the people with the most to gain are precisely those candidates who observe proper manners and protocol during the campaign, since, in his words, "What the Dominican people are looking for is that the candidates for the presidency to tell them what they are going to do and how they are going to do it..."

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