The stakes were highest for Vicente Fox Quesada, the strongest opposition candidate, who faced off for 90 minutes with Francisco Labastida Ochoa, the ruling party candidate, and Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano, a leftist contender who has been running far behind the other two.
Mrs. Chimene, the 40-year-old ruling party candidate, dismisses such talk.
Official election results handed an overwhelming victory to the ruling party candidate, Serge Sargsyan.
One monitor reported a bribe offer from a ruling party candidate.
Opposition leaders were protesting the election of a ruling party candidate as mayor of Arusha, an opposition stronghold, saying Chadema councilors were barred from voting.
The ruling party candidate for prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said he was calling off the rest of his campaign for the general election on Sunday.
He entered the air force, which he served to his best," she told supporters when she was chosen as the ruling party candidate.
The only difference was a minor one, he contended: there was no ruling party candidate this time, because the army general who is interim president refused to run, keeping his promise.
The first presidential vote of the post-Chávez era resulted in turmoil on Sunday night after the declaration of a razor-thin win for the ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro left an enraged opposition declaring fraud and demanding a recount.
Ian Fisher (NYT) GUINEA-BISSAU: CONCEDES IN VOTE Malam Bacai Sanha, ruling party candidate in a presidential election, conceded defeat to Kumba Yala, head of the Party for Social Renewal, after a second-round runoff on Sunday.
