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Presidential elections were held inPanama on 25 June 1916.
The battle lines were drawn almost a year in advance, withRamón Maximiliano Valdés running asBelisario Porras Barahona’s handpicked successor against the Liberal dissidentRodolfo Chiari Robles.[1]
In 1916Porras askedWashington to stay out.[2]
The factions of the Liberal and Conservative parties which supportedRodolfo Chiari, the opposition candidate for president, pleaded for moreUnited States supervisors to prevent the President from fixing the results. TheWoodrow Wilson administration cooperated withBelisario Porras Barahona and his party easily won.[3]
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