Referendum, the day after

07.19.2004

With final CNE counts still unreleased, preliminary referendum results are pretty definitive. The "Sí" vote won in all five questions, though w/ a small margin for Question 4 (which asked whether voters supported Mesa's strategy of negotiating gas sales to Chile in exchange for sea access). Nonetheless, debates are already raging in some sectors as to how to interpret the election results. Especially since later turnout figures estimate 40.6% absenteeism.

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