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02-05-2008, 07:20 PM
This year's campaign season has been ripe with accusations of corruption by politicians in present or past office. Now, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman says he will take the lead to convince politicians to tone down the negative exchanges that could lead to violent confrontations that have marked the 2008 presidential campaign. He said that the JCE judges will be meeting tomorrow to discuss a proposal for a meeting with presidential candidates, party leaders, secretary generals, campaign directors and delegates on the issue of the dirty campaign. Ultimately though, Castanos admitted that the JCE could only be as strong as the will of the candidates. "We are selected as referees; we can't force the political parties to agree on what we say". Castanos also reminded the political parties that defamation, slander and publishing pictures of private meetings was illegal and could be subject to litigation.
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