- Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: DOMINICANS VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
- Date: 16th May 1994
- Summary: SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (MAY 16, 1994) 1. TOP SHOT PEOPLE WAITING TO VOTE 0.04 2. GV ARMED SOLDIERS NEXT TO QUEUE OF PEOPLE AT POLLING STATION 0.06 3. SCU PRESIDENT JOAQUIN BALAGUER BEING HELPED TO POST HIS VOTE 0.26 4. TOP SHOT DOMINICAN REVOLUTIONARY PARTY CANDIDATE JOSE FRANCISCO PENA SURROUNDED BY CROWD 0.32 5. SCU PENA GOMEZ VOTING 0.38 6. CU PENA GOMEZ COMPLAINING OF ELECTORAL FRAUD (SPANISH) 1.03 7. GV SOLDIERS GUARDING GATES AT POLLING STATION AS PEOPLE PASS THROUGH GATES TO VOTE 1.07 8. GV DISPUTE AT POLLING STATION 1.13 9. GV CROWD OF PEOPLE AND SOLDIERS AT GATE TO POLLING STATION 1.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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- Country: Dominican Republic CARIBBEAN
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- Story Text: Voters went to the polls in the Dominican Republic on Monday (May 16) in an election that six-term President Joaquin Balaguer, who is 87 years old, seemed close to losing to his main rival, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez.
Election day was calm in the Caribbean country, despite charges of election fraud made on Monday morning by Pena Gomez against Balaguer's supporters.
Pena Gomez, candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, said electoral rolls had been tampered with and that many of his supporters had been unable to vote.
He led Balaguer in opinion polls throughout the three-month campaign, but the former Santo Domingo mayor's lead narrowed to three to five points as election day approached.
Pena Gomez's campaign was increasingly dogged by rumours that the candidate was of Haitian descent and would seek to unite the country with Haiti if he wins the election.
If Pena Gomez was elected he would become the Dominican Republic's first black president.
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