The counting of the two ballot boxes for the St. Mary South Eastern constituency and the magisterial recount in Hanover Eastern, can now proceed following decisions made in court yesterday.

Jamaica Labour Party candidate Tarn Peralto withdrew his application for an extension of an injunction to halt the counting of the ballots in the two boxes. This dramatic turn of event paved the way for Director of Elections Danville Walker to count the ballots. Walker had said the two boxes were inadvertently stored with counted ballots.

Peralto, who was declared the winner by 37 votes, was sworn in yesterday as Member of Parliament. Legal sources disclosed that now that Peralto has been sworn in, if Harry Douglas, the People's National Party candidate, is declared the winner after those ballots have been counted then any further legal challenges would have to be by way of an election petition.

In Eastern Hanover, the Court of Appeal gave the go ahead yesterday for Resident Magistrate George Burton to continue the re-examination of the magisterial recount.