Posted on 04/19/2015 7:32:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Two dissident candidates conceded defeat Sunday in Cuban local elections that offered them a chance to become the first officials elected from outside the Communist Party in 40 years.
Hildebrando Chaviano and Yuniel Lopez had been chosen as candidates by a show of hands in Havana neighborhood nominating meetings and hoped to win two of the 12,589 seats at stake in 168 municipal councils. Both acknowledged they had no chance of winning after preliminary results showed Chaviano in last place of four candidates and one of Lopez’s pro-government opponent with twice his vote. Chaviano, 65, is a government attorney-turned-independent journalist and Lopez, 26, is an unemployed member of a dissident political party. […]
The dissidents and foreign press watched the vote-counting without incident, although Lopez complained that he hadn’t been able to watch the full count in one polling place. He also said that government backers had pressured people in his neighborhood to vote against him. […]
“The vote was clean,” Chaviano said. “The people don’t want change.” …
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Now they will probably go to prison
Sure, just like “elections” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Guess they won’t be demanding a recount.
Like trying to get elected as a Republican in San Francisco.
99.9 percent of the vote in Iran, North Korea, Cuba!!! those guy are popular lol
Doesn’t Obama bow to all of them when meets them, and does even more to them in private?
There is no God but Marx and Castro is his prophet, at least in Cuber.
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