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04-11-2011, 04:20 PM
Political analyst Rosario Espinal said that the decision for Margarita Cedeno to run for the PLD makes it unlikely that President Fernandez, who is also president of the PLD, can be neutral in the primary. "What he did with his hands on Friday when he announced he would not seek to be re-elected given what that meant for the institutions of the country, he messed up with his feet," said Espinal, a professor of sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia. "It will not be a fair contest. If Margarita wins the primary, she will force Medina to take the decision of retiring from politics or using his power to split the PLD," she observed in an interview in Hoy.
The president of the Fuerza Nacional Progresista, Marino Vinicio Castillo, who is also president of the Presidency Ethics Commission, told Listin Diario that it was an error to register the candidacy of the First Lady. He attributed the registration of the candidacy to groups within the PLD that oppose Danilo Medina. "You cannot do any coordination in politics if you do not think of what is best for the country," he commented.
As reported in Listin Diario, PLD presidential pre-candidate Franklin Almeyda, a former minister of Interior & Police, said that the competition in the primary would be between Danilo Medina and Margarita Cedeno. Almeyda said that if Cedeno is running it is because she is the wife of President Fernandez.
Political analyst Daniel Pou describes the Margarita Cedeno candidacy as "a political mistake". "She does not have her own merits and the political background to hold a presidential candidacy and to compete with a candidate such as Hipolito Mejia," he said.
Sociologist Ramon Tejada Holguin also believes that Margarita Cedeno's candidacy is not healthy for internal democracy within the PLD. "She does not have a relationship with the party members, as do Minou Tavarez in the PLD or Milagros Ortiz Bosch in the PRD who have been politically active in their parties. He says that her case is not comparable to that of Cristina Fernandez in Argentina who had her own political career and had been a senator, before being the President's wife.
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The president of the Fuerza Nacional Progresista, Marino Vinicio Castillo, who is also president of the Presidency Ethics Commission, told Listin Diario that it was an error to register the candidacy of the First Lady. He attributed the registration of the candidacy to groups within the PLD that oppose Danilo Medina. "You cannot do any coordination in politics if you do not think of what is best for the country," he commented.
As reported in Listin Diario, PLD presidential pre-candidate Franklin Almeyda, a former minister of Interior & Police, said that the competition in the primary would be between Danilo Medina and Margarita Cedeno. Almeyda said that if Cedeno is running it is because she is the wife of President Fernandez.
Political analyst Daniel Pou describes the Margarita Cedeno candidacy as "a political mistake". "She does not have her own merits and the political background to hold a presidential candidacy and to compete with a candidate such as Hipolito Mejia," he said.
Sociologist Ramon Tejada Holguin also believes that Margarita Cedeno's candidacy is not healthy for internal democracy within the PLD. "She does not have a relationship with the party members, as do Minou Tavarez in the PLD or Milagros Ortiz Bosch in the PRD who have been politically active in their parties. He says that her case is not comparable to that of Cristina Fernandez in Argentina who had her own political career and had been a senator, before being the President's wife.
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