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03-07-2011, 02:50 PM
With 71% of the votes counted at 11am on Monday, it appeared that the PRD opposition party electoral commission knew that former President Hipolito Mejia was leading in the primary. Originally the results would have been announced at 10am with 60% of the votes counted. But the PRD kept the country waiting into 1:30pm.
The media speculated that with the results known, Hugo Tolentino Dipp, Emmanuel Esquea and Milagros Ortiz Bosch visited the candidates, Miguel Vargas Maldonado and Hipolito Mejia, to present the results to them before announcing them to the nation.
Earlier in the morning, Alfredo Pacheco, of the Miguel Vargas Maldonado team had announced that the exit polls indicated Vargas Maldonado was in the lead.
El Caribe reported that Miguel Vargas Maldonado supporters complained that around 200,000 PLD members had voted in the open primary, to position Mejia has the PRD candidate. The intent was to position who they deem an easier candidate to beat in the presidential election of 20 May 2012.
Mejia was President from 2000-2004. He ended his presidency with a constitutional ban on running again, but in a political pact reached between his rival in the presidential primary Miguel Vargas Maldonado and President Leonel Fernandez, the Constitution was changed to allow him to run again. The 2010 Constitution authorizes Presidents to run for President again after a term out of power.
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The media speculated that with the results known, Hugo Tolentino Dipp, Emmanuel Esquea and Milagros Ortiz Bosch visited the candidates, Miguel Vargas Maldonado and Hipolito Mejia, to present the results to them before announcing them to the nation.
Earlier in the morning, Alfredo Pacheco, of the Miguel Vargas Maldonado team had announced that the exit polls indicated Vargas Maldonado was in the lead.
El Caribe reported that Miguel Vargas Maldonado supporters complained that around 200,000 PLD members had voted in the open primary, to position Mejia has the PRD candidate. The intent was to position who they deem an easier candidate to beat in the presidential election of 20 May 2012.
Mejia was President from 2000-2004. He ended his presidency with a constitutional ban on running again, but in a political pact reached between his rival in the presidential primary Miguel Vargas Maldonado and President Leonel Fernandez, the Constitution was changed to allow him to run again. The 2010 Constitution authorizes Presidents to run for President again after a term out of power.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)