The Modern Revolutionary (PRM) and Dominican Liberation (PLD) parties were designated as the only two majority parties, according to Central Electoral Council (JCE) regulation 01-2021 released last night.
While the People’s Force remained a minority party by reaching 4.54%, coupled with the votes obtained at the two electoral levels contested in the last elections on July 5, Presidential and Congress
By this criterion, the PRM was in first place with 44.95% and the PLD in second place with 32.30%, for which the JCE had designated them as the only two majority parties.
The decision was taken after a meeting of the institution’s plenary session, led by the president, Román Jáquez Liranzo, that took place yesterday and lasted more than five hours.
Distribution of resources
In accordance with Law 33-18 on Political Parties, Groups and Movements, 80% of the resources allocated by the state to be distributed among political parties will be redistributed equally between the PRM and the PLD as they only those were more than 5% of the valid votes cast in elections.
According to that resolution, the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) party, led by former president Leonel Fernández, reached just 4.54%, and the Dominican Revolutionary Parties (PRD) 3.57%; Christian Social Reformist (PRSC), 2.96%; Alianza País (Alpaís), 1.37%, and Dominicanos por el Cambio (DXC), 1.04%, so they will receive 12% of the allocated funds in equal shares, remaining as minority parties.
The remaining 8% of the resources will be distributed to the 19 parties registered in the JCE that obtained less than 1% of the valid votes cast in those last two elections.
Amount of votes
The JCE provision establishes that the PRM has obtained 1,998,407 votes at the presidential level, 1,768,588 votes at the senatorial level, and 1,636,599 votes at the deputy level, for a total of valid votes of 5,403,594 and a percentage of 44.95%.
While the PLD obtained 1,352,842 vtoso at the presidential level; 1,267,168 votes at the senate level and 1,262,971 at the deputy level, for an amount of 3,882,981 and a percentage of 32.30%.
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People’s Force.
The FP obtained 233,538 votes at the presidential level; 141,836 at the senatorial level and 171,376 votes at the deputy level, for a total vote of 546,750 and a percentage of 4.54%.
PRD AND PRSC.
The PRD received only 97,655 votes at the presidential level, and the total vote was 430,282, for a percentage of 3.57%, while the PRSC got 73,918 votes at the presidential level and a sum of 356,292, 2.96%.
Other parties.
Alianza País received 39,458 votes at the presidential level and a sum of 165,670 votes, for 1.37%, and the DXC, 31,511 and a sum of 125,146, for 1.04%.