Manera has worked as candidate attorney, lawyer and adviser at several law firms, including García Cordero y Asociados and Grupo de Abogados Consultores.
It doesn't matter what the agreement signed by the candidates' lawyers says.
The candidates' lawyers were under orders from the board not to challenge its decisions ballot by ballot.
He said he would meet with Board of Election members and the candidates' lawyers today or tomorrow to see if "we can massage it here and there".
The demonstrators were accompanied by waves of tear gas that left many of the candidates, lawyers and journalists in the courtroom choking and gasping for air.
The dilemma has already scuttled one candidate, a lawyer for a biotechnology company who was rejected by Senate Democrats.
Michael J. Ryan, 42, the Democratic candidate, a lawyer in private practice, challenged Mr. Donovan, a Republican who celebrated his 51st birthday yesterday.
Bandt said he was confident of retaining the seat, despite Labor party insiders saying he is vulnerable to their candidate, the lawyer Sophie Ismail.
And as the party's lead candidate, a lawyer in a well-worn glen-plaid suit, tried to hand out fliers on the streets of the hard-pressed town of Kasserine, some said they doubted the party's credibility.
He later admitted to me that, given the circumstances, holding a popular election was a "crazy idea". He had attended campaign meetings for his preferred candidate, a lawyer named Ibrahim Bareesh, inside a makeshift bunker, sitting near a wall of sandbags.
