tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post8282361276294533091..comments2024-03-28T11:30:20.005-05:00Comments on El Salvador Perspectives: One week to legislative and municipal electionsTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-80565089049898594532009-01-14T13:56:00.000-06:002009-01-14T13:56:00.000-06:00There is an interesting poll about the Presidentia...There is an interesting poll about the Presidential Election. The poll is runned by an independent website called: www.sv.totepolls.com.<BR/><BR/>It´s interesting, looks like Mauricio Funes, and the FLMN las large chances of winning the Presidential Race. <BR/><BR/>It´s unbeliveable how fast the democracy takes place, El Salvador has been freed from war for approx. 20 years. It does not matter if you are right or left wing, what it matters is that democracy came to El Salvador to stay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-84806082408714636312009-01-12T20:15:00.000-06:002009-01-12T20:15:00.000-06:00Caro Franz, grazzie per il vostro impegno in gli e...Caro Franz, grazzie per il vostro impegno in gli elezzioni di nostro piccolo paese. E sempre una fonte di speranza possere videre buona genti come lei chi desiderano un mondo megliori per tutti. Have a safe and rewarding experience in our little country!Carlos X.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16580093848691478319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-27606627345660862002009-01-12T19:12:00.000-06:002009-01-12T19:12:00.000-06:00People believe they will get wet when it is rainin...People believe they will get wet when it is raining. Does that make them wet? Perhaps they have no basis for their belief...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-56976536362013782142009-01-12T12:24:00.000-06:002009-01-12T12:24:00.000-06:00Tim, I'll be one international observer for a salv...Tim, I'll be one international observer for a salvadoran NGO too (in march for the presidential election), coming from Italy. When I was "recruited" a few months ago by a friend of mine, I looked around for infos about this little and unknown (to me) central americal country, and I found your blog. Since then, it has been an invaluable source of information to me. This is my first trip outside Europe, and I am both excited and a little bit worried by this experience in this troubled country. I wish you as observer and all the voting salvadorans a smooth legislative and municipal electoral process!<BR/>FranzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-35703789280006726162009-01-12T10:31:00.000-06:002009-01-12T10:31:00.000-06:00If you look at past polls, i bet that the number o...If you look at past polls, i bet that the number of salvadorans who believe there will be fraud has held pretty steady over the past 15 years or so.... If that's the case, it doesn't mean much.<BR/><BR/>Tim, interested if (1) any of the electoral registry issues were resolved in the past few months (that had been signaled by some observers), (2) if not, did it end up making a difference (my sense would be that no, it won't) (3) whether there's any real merit to the "political" violence that has been alleged. On the latter point, I'm always skeptical that it's anything more than locally related disputes, which may be political, or may be not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-70481600411939593612009-01-12T00:08:00.000-06:002009-01-12T00:08:00.000-06:00that's good, you go tim. i'm glad you'll be an obs...that's good, you go tim. i'm glad you'll be an observer, at least you are contributing, doing your part to have a transperent democracy and clear elections. the possibility of electoral fraud, especially emanating from the coena, is always a reasonable doubt. at least people are aware of its possibility.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-32141681981716314312009-01-11T16:13:00.000-06:002009-01-11T16:13:00.000-06:00Concerning fraud and the more than half of salvado...Concerning fraud and the more than half of salvadorans who believe it, also a majority of salvadorans also believe in an afterlife, whatever denomination they belong to.<BR/><BR/>And the afterlife may or may not be true, even independently of what I myself believe.<BR/><BR/>My point being that, just because half of the population believes there will be fraud, does not make it so, nor does it mean that they have basis to believe so. <BR/><BR/>After all, these elections have been so polarized and are so full of election related junk information, speculation and rumors, that ALL OF EL SALVADOR'S VOTERS ARE WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING THEY BELIEVE DEEPLY, CONCERNING THE TWO MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES, THEIR CANDIDATES AND THOSE CANDIDATES' METHODS AND ASPIRATIONS FOR THE FUTURE.<BR/><BR/>And anyway, since Tim will be observing, he will be able to detail post election, what he saw, and his comments give me the belief that he will be quite a neutral and educated observer.<BR/><BR/>Then again, I am also part of the whole of the electoral population who is wrong about something.<BR/><BR/>Regards,Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15755787370044476608noreply@blogger.com