DR: Election results in and Mejia out

...Leonel Fernandez is the President-elect....

According to the Diario Libre, Fernandez won the first round of voting and President Mejia was “magnanimous” in conceding defeat without any excuses.

Hoy newspaper reported that JCE Bulletin No. 6, with half of the votes tallied, gave Hipolito 35.29%, Leonel 54.99% and Eduardo Estrella 9.12%. El Caribe simply says, “Leonel Presidente”. The PLD leader is cited as saying, “The confrontation is over.” La Informacion, from Santiago de los Caballeros, says that “Mejia recognizes the triumph of Leonel Fernandez.”

Although the Central Electoral Board (JCE) had barely released their first numbers, President Mejia had been in closed meetings with his election team, and at 11:40pm the incumbent President admitted defeat. This was truly an historic occasion, since it is the first time in livin