The Costa Rica ratified CAFTA, the Free Trade Agreement with the United States of America are already in force in the rest of Central America.
In last Sunday's referendum "Yes" got the better, albeit slightly: 51.69 percent against 48.31. Went to vote six out of ten citizens.
Immediately after the disclosure of the results, yesterday (Monday, editor's note), the popular movements of the front of the "No" denounced electoral fraud, accusing the Superior Electoral Tribunal of being "complicit in the system of direct Arias brothers ( president and prime minister, ed ) by failing to effectively enforce the truce election." The Movimiento Nacional
Patriótica did not recognize the result.
Allegations of irregularities in the voting process came from many cities across the country. Some pictures show armed security guards contracted from the front of the "Yes" to intimidate voters on their way to the voting centers, the vice mayor of the city of Colima, Federico de Faria, who denounced the night between Saturday and Sunday had launched unknown stones the headquarters of the Committee for the "No", a student at the University of Costa Rica, Noelia Murillo, was attacked by supporters of "Yes" while working on an information organized by the University.
I spent Sunday listening to the radio streaming La señal of Corazon, who has been live throughout the electoral process with correspondents in all departments. Many denounced the lack of public transportation, purchased (and held in place) from the front of the "Yes" to block some people-usually the poorest, who do not have auto-reaching the ballot boxes, while others described the exchange pencils at the time of vote (there were two different colors: one red, had to be used to credit the voters, and the other blue, at the time of the vote).
The complaint of fraud was widespread even by ' Alianza Social Continental -platform organizations and progressive social movements of the Americas, founded in 1999 -. In a statement which referred to "Crónica de un fraude Anunciado," the complaint Asc the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for denying delegates Wing -28 people from many countries of South America and Central America to participate in- vote as observers recognized.
The competent authorities of the complaint-Alianza Social Continental, have not ensured "Impartiality, transparency and neutrality," and therefore the result of the referendum can not be recognized.
In particular, the delegation was able to establish the effect of electoral silence in the days leading up to the referendum ("dealing with the mass media for spreading the 'Yes', and with the participation of President Oscar Arias to numerous acts public "). The complaint also
Asc interference of the Government of the United States of America: President Bush has threatened to done away with the Iniciativa de la Cuenca Caribe (Costa Rica that allows the U.S. to export goods without paying customs duties) and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, arriving in Costa Rica as an observer has called publicly dichierato porpria "sympathy" to CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement).
Trying to see the glass half full, almost half the population of Costa Rica said "No" to the Treaty of free trade. And in 3 of 7 departments, the "No" won.
This obliges the government to establish a dialogue with the parliamentary opposition to implement CAFTA (by March 2008, for example, must be approved by Parliament the package of laws complementary to the Treaty, the so-called "implementation agenda", more liberal-if possible-the same CAFTA).
In last Sunday's referendum "Yes" got the better, albeit slightly: 51.69 percent against 48.31. Went to vote six out of ten citizens.
Immediately after the disclosure of the results, yesterday (Monday, editor's note), the popular movements of the front of the "No" denounced electoral fraud, accusing the Superior Electoral Tribunal of being "complicit in the system of direct Arias brothers ( president and prime minister, ed ) by failing to effectively enforce the truce election." The Movimiento Nacional
Patriótica did not recognize the result.
Allegations of irregularities in the voting process came from many cities across the country. Some pictures show armed security guards contracted from the front of the "Yes" to intimidate voters on their way to the voting centers, the vice mayor of the city of Colima, Federico de Faria, who denounced the night between Saturday and Sunday had launched unknown stones the headquarters of the Committee for the "No", a student at the University of Costa Rica, Noelia Murillo, was attacked by supporters of "Yes" while working on an information organized by the University.
I spent Sunday listening to the radio streaming La señal of Corazon, who has been live throughout the electoral process with correspondents in all departments. Many denounced the lack of public transportation, purchased (and held in place) from the front of the "Yes" to block some people-usually the poorest, who do not have auto-reaching the ballot boxes, while others described the exchange pencils at the time of vote (there were two different colors: one red, had to be used to credit the voters, and the other blue, at the time of the vote).
The complaint of fraud was widespread even by ' Alianza Social Continental -platform organizations and progressive social movements of the Americas, founded in 1999 -. In a statement which referred to "Crónica de un fraude Anunciado," the complaint Asc the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for denying delegates Wing -28 people from many countries of South America and Central America to participate in- vote as observers recognized.
The competent authorities of the complaint-Alianza Social Continental, have not ensured "Impartiality, transparency and neutrality," and therefore the result of the referendum can not be recognized.
In particular, the delegation was able to establish the effect of electoral silence in the days leading up to the referendum ("dealing with the mass media for spreading the 'Yes', and with the participation of President Oscar Arias to numerous acts public "). The complaint also
Asc interference of the Government of the United States of America: President Bush has threatened to done away with the Iniciativa de la Cuenca Caribe (Costa Rica that allows the U.S. to export goods without paying customs duties) and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, arriving in Costa Rica as an observer has called publicly dichierato porpria "sympathy" to CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement).
Trying to see the glass half full, almost half the population of Costa Rica said "No" to the Treaty of free trade. And in 3 of 7 departments, the "No" won.
This obliges the government to establish a dialogue with the parliamentary opposition to implement CAFTA (by March 2008, for example, must be approved by Parliament the package of laws complementary to the Treaty, the so-called "implementation agenda", more liberal-if possible-the same CAFTA).
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