SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Police blocked hundreds of supporters of the conservative candidate in El Salvador’s presidential election from reaching a hotel where electoral authorities were doing a final count Monday for the razor-thin runoff contest.
Supporters of Norman Quijano, candidate of the Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, carried signs reading “Vote by vote, tally sheet by tally sheet” to press their demands that all ballots from Sunday’s election be recounted.
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