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10-07-2009, 04:50 PM
The Constitutional Revisory Assembly has agreed to ban consecutive re-elections as part of the new Dominican constitution. The Constitution now reverts to its previous wording, before it was modified by former President Hipolito Mejia. This means that current President Leonel Fernandez, who has served three presidential terms, the last two being consecutive thanks to Mejia's Constitutional modification, will not be re-elected for a fourth term in office. This amendment to the Constitution was part of an original pact between Fernandez and current PRD presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado. With Fernandez constitutionally out of the picture, this increases Vargas' chance of winning the presidency in 2012. The article amending the constitution also lowers the minimum age for the presidency from 35 to 30. The article states that the any candidate for the presidency cannot have served in the military or police for the last three years.
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