The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) takes a deep breath with the decision of the Central Electoral Council (JCE) to endorse the order of the ballots for the elections and to award her second place, and with the success of its recent Central Committee.
The JCE ratified on Wednesday that the order of the parties in the ballots is maintained based on the number of voters, leaving the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in government with 44.95% and the PLD 32.30%, the two majority .
For former President Danilo Medina, these are decisions that strengthen him and bolster the possibilities of his eventual candidacy in 2024, which is not inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic, so that in that year the three great leaders could strive.
All this in a week is something very important for the opposition party that broke up before the last elections and that gave rise to the formation of the Fuerza del Pueblo party led by former President Leonel Fernández, perennial presidential candidate. Medina and his party have yet to overcome several hurdles in a long obstacle-filled race to completely recreate the party name and get him to run for president in the upcoming elections, as the PLD has few leaders.
The latter’s demonstration was seen during Sunday’s election to elect the members of the Central Committee, where the names of former Senator Mariotti and former Chancellery and Education Minister, Navarro, emerged as candidates for Secretary General. It was noted that the other eternal aspirant, this time with the secretary general, Reinaldo Pared Pérez, due to the circumstances of his retirement due to health problems, leaves a gap that is difficult to fill with a candidate who has no doubts because of being sincere and honest. to be.
The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) takes a deep breath with the decision of the Central Electoral Council (JCE) to endorse the order of the ballots for the elections and to award her second place, and with the success of the recent Central Elections. Committee.
The JCE ratified on Wednesday that the order of the parties in the ballots is maintained based on the number of voters, leaving the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in government at 44.95% and the PLD at 32.30%, the two majority.
For former President Danilo Medina, these are decisions that strengthen him and bolster the possibilities of his eventual candidacy in 2024, which is not inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic, so that in that year the three great leaders could strive.
All this in a week is something very important for the opposition party that broke up before the last elections and that gave rise to the formation of the Fuerza del Pueblo party led by former President Leonel Fernández, perennial presidential candidate.
Medina and his party have yet to overcome several hurdles in a long obstacle-filled race to completely recreate the party name and make him the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections, as the PLD has few leaders.
The latter’s demonstration was seen during Sunday’s election to elect the members of the Central Committee, where the names of former Senator Mariotti and former Chancellery and Education Minister, Navarro, emerged as candidates for Secretary General.
It was noted that the other eternal aspirant, this time with the secretary general, Reinaldo Pared Pérez, due to the circumstances of his retirement due to health problems, leaves a gap that is difficult to fill with a candidate who has no doubts because of being sincere and honest. to be.
The Secretary General
The election of the new Secretary-General, who would be the executive branch within the PLD, goes no further than the perception of the organization’s militants, who have their opinions on the reasons for the loss of the election and what the future would be like. are until 2024.
To the endeavors of Mariotti and Navarro is added that of Juan Ariel Jiménez, who was Minister of Economics and Deputy Minister of the Presidency under Medina and is considered a graduate of UASD and Harvard, United States of economics.
Perhaps because he is the son of Félix Jiménez, Felucho, who was Secretary of Tourism and President of the Oil Refinery, told a television program that his studies abroad were funded with a Fulbright scholarship. He is Christian, liberal and sober.
Jiménez’s election would give the PLD a figure that was already accepted in the election as the most voted. Being sober and honest, he would clean up in the party the bad reputation that followed his years at the head of the state, when the birth of millionaires was accepted as normal.
With his credentials, Jiménez, who is said to have grown up in his grandparents’ home, would assure the militancy of the party base not to be an instrument of spokesmen for the oligarchy addicted to privately running the country’s affairs in terms of booze and waste. . If the PLD managed to return to the cohesion of previous decades, which allowed it to win online elections that lasted a total of 16 years, plus four years in Dr. Fernández (1996-2000), her presence in public life would once again be the salvation table of militancy.
The old party that was the product of a split in the Dominican Revolutionary, PRD, has to fight against the validity of the Modern Revolutionary Party, PRM, whose leader, Luis Abinader, will rule until 2004, when he could aspire to reelection.
Behind the battle for the second place of the majority, there is, without disrespect, the quest for the resources that the Central Electoral Council, JCE, guarantees to the two majority parties, and that is the 80% that now goes to the PRM treasury. and PLD.
While it may seem an anomaly that the executive branch must release budget resources to sustain the parties, no one has opposed this practice. Those millionaire flows from the parties collide with the reality that their premises are dilapidated.
For cynics, it is a matter for moneylenders and moneylenders. If the supply of funds to the parties would be eliminated, the disappearance of the smallest possible would begin, although they don’t get significant votes, they manage to be among the winners.
Mortifications
The PLD claims to be oblivious to the mortifications of corruption cases being broadcast in the media and the courts, with new complaints appearing time and again as a sort of streak that settles by the day. In the case of ODEBRECHT, the PLD has its own as well as the People’s Force. At the end of President Fernández’s last administration, these and other cases of corruption came to light involving lawmakers who received bribes.
The Mortifications The PLD claims to be oblivious to the mortifications of corruption cases being broadcast in the media and the courts, with new complaints emerging as a sort of rigor that is settled by the days. In the case of ODEBRECHT, the PLD has its own as well as the People’s Force. At the end of President Fernández’s last administration, these and other cases of corruption came to light involving lawmakers who received bribes.