Recommend this article  A former president who lost his bid to
be re-elected in the Dominican Republic issued a scathing
denunciation Tuesday of the country's electoral process but made
no mention of any plans to challenge the outcome.  Hipolito
Mejia told cheering supporters that the results of Sunday's
election did not reflect the will of the people. "They are the
product of manipulation and an abuse of power," he said in a
brief speech.  Mejia did not concede, but he didn't say he would
seek a recount. Nor did he call for supporters of the Democratic
Revolutionary Party to protest the outcome, though police and
soldiers were on stand-by in the Caribbean country just in case.
The governing party's winning candidate, Danilo Medina, a
60-year-old career politician and government official, received
51 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff. Mejia, who
served as president in 2000-04, had 47 percent, according to the
country's Electoral Commission.  An observer team from the
Organization of American Stat