By YURETH PAREDES for La Estrella - Two candidates who have said everything, now enter in the race to the finish. There are only seven days remaining before the primary elections will be held for the political party founded by Omar Torrijos. Balbina Herrera needed 40 days to reflect before making her decision whether or not to enter into the race for the presidency. According to the polling data at the time Balbina Herrera was leading her closest PRD competitor, Juan Carlos Navarro, by almost 30%, and those polls and numbers almost certainly helped her to decide to run. And Balbina managed to surpass even the worst allegation made against her - that she supposedly received campaign financing support from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. (more) Editor's Comment: Yup, right on the money. It's going to be a very, very close election. Personally, I stick with my prediction for a Juan Carlos Navarro win by a very tight overall margin - maybe three or four percentage points. (Article Continues) The checkmate given to this campaign was Balbina Herrera's participation as a speaker in The Americas Society, the foundation created by David Rockefeller in New York City. 180 degrees But Juan Carlos Navarro did not move backward and his campaign maintained its working cycle. The moral of his team underwent some reverses, like the departure of some members who went to look for other lines of work before the PRD primary on 7 September 2008. One of the member ...
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By YURETH PAREDES for La Estrella - Two candidates who have said everything, now enter in the race to the finish. There are only seven days remaining before the primary elections will be held for the political party founded by Omar Torrijos. Balbina Herrera needed 40 days to reflect before making her decision whether or not to enter into the race for the presidency. According to the polling data at the time Balbina Herrera was leading her closest PRD competitor, Juan Carlos Navarro, by almost 30%, and those polls and numbers almost certainly helped her to decide to run. And Balbina managed to surpass even the worst allegation made against her - that she supposedly received campaign financing support from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. (more) Editor's Comment: Yup, right on the money. It's going to be a very, very close election. Personally, I stick with my prediction for a Juan Carlos Navarro win by a very tight overall margin - maybe three or four percentage points. (Article Continues) The checkmate given to this campaign was Balbina Herrera's participation as a speaker in The Americas Society, the foundation created by David Rockefeller in New York City. 180 degrees But Juan Carlos Navarro did not move backward and his campaign maintained its working cycle. The moral of his team underwent some reverses, like the departure of some members who went to look for other lines of work before the PRD primary on 7 September 2008. One of the member ...