Meanwhile, some winners have been announced. For example, in Esteli, the number one candidate for member of the National Assembly was the former priest Ernesto Bravo, followed by the mayor of Esteli, Dr. Ulises Gonzalez. Ruben Lopez won the candidacy for Mayor of Bluefields while Henry Vado Amador won the nomination for the same position for the city of Granada. Carlos Guadamuz, the controversial head of Radio Ya also won the primary elections to be FSLN candidate for mayor of Managua, defeating Emmet Lang, FSLN coordinator for Managua. The exact number of people who voted has not yet been announced, but the number surpassed original expectations, illustrated by the fact that almost all of the voting centers ran out of ballots before the end of the day.
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Two and one quarter million citizens eligible to vote in October. Of that number, the Supreme Electoral Council hopes that 1,100,000 will have obtained their official voter identification card. Another 750,000 will have a provisional document, according to Maria Teresa Aleman, national director of the identification card process. Aleman says at Miami fundraiser that he will break with Cuba. More tuberculosis cases in Managua area.