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04-11-2011, 05:20 PM
A day after President Fernandez declined seeking reelection, the PLD Central Committee announced that First Lady Margarita Cedeno would complete the list of seven pre-candidates who will compete in the 26 June primary of the ruling party. In addition to First Lady Margarita Cedeno, Vice President Rafael Alburquerque, former Minister of Interior & Police Franklin Almeyda, former Santo Domingo senator Jose Tomas Perez, former Santiago senator Francisco Dominguez Brito, former director of the CDEEE Radhames Segura and former Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina are on the list of hopefuls. Medina was the PLD candidate in 2000 (he defeated Jaime David Fernandez in the primary), and competed against Fernandez in the 2007 primary.
The race for the PLD candidacy is now expected to concentrate on the First Lady and Fernandez dissident Danilo Medina.
The candidates were elected during a PLD Central Committee meeting at the Melia Santo Domingo Hotel attended by 371 of 403 members of the committee. 230 members of the Central Committee voted in favor of Cedeno, who was proposed as a prospective PLD presidential candidate by Higher Education minister Ligia Amada Melo. The Central Committee meeting was chaired by President Leonel Fernandez, who is also president of the PLD.
The PLD also approved a new rule for the primary, establishing that more than 50% is needed for a pre-candidate to win the PLD nomination. If this is not achieved, a run-off election will be held. In the past, all that was required was a simple majority. The party announced that there would not be individual vote counts for the pre-candidates.
The coordinating commission that will organize the primary is made up of Cesar Pina Toribio, Felix Bautista, Danilo Diaz, Alejandrina German, Temistocles Montas, Guaroa Guzman and Miriam Cabral.
The 2012 presidential election is scheduled for 20 May.
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The race for the PLD candidacy is now expected to concentrate on the First Lady and Fernandez dissident Danilo Medina.
The candidates were elected during a PLD Central Committee meeting at the Melia Santo Domingo Hotel attended by 371 of 403 members of the committee. 230 members of the Central Committee voted in favor of Cedeno, who was proposed as a prospective PLD presidential candidate by Higher Education minister Ligia Amada Melo. The Central Committee meeting was chaired by President Leonel Fernandez, who is also president of the PLD.
The PLD also approved a new rule for the primary, establishing that more than 50% is needed for a pre-candidate to win the PLD nomination. If this is not achieved, a run-off election will be held. In the past, all that was required was a simple majority. The party announced that there would not be individual vote counts for the pre-candidates.
The coordinating commission that will organize the primary is made up of Cesar Pina Toribio, Felix Bautista, Danilo Diaz, Alejandrina German, Temistocles Montas, Guaroa Guzman and Miriam Cabral.
The 2012 presidential election is scheduled for 20 May.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)