Dominicans vote
VIEILLE CASE, Dominica: Voters were to decide the closely contested elections yesterday, that could bring a review of Dominica's switch to diplomatic ties with China from Taiwan and of an IMF programme that has stimulated economic growth but led to higher taxes and layoffs of government workers. In the remote northern farming town of Vieille Case, the parliamentary district of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, voters slowly but steadily entered polling stations, which opened at 7 am and were to close at 5 pm. Preliminary results were expected before midnight. Grocery store owner Felix Honore, 56, said he was voting against Skerrit's coalition government, which has 12 seats in the 21-member legislature and is seeking a second five-year mandate. "The poor are getting poorer, a lot of businesses have closed down recently, and people are out of work," he said. Other voters, however, said Edison James’ United Workers Party, which is trying to retake power five years after Skerrit’s Labour Party unseated it, is retrograde.
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