Political Committee rejected Margarita

[NewsWhore]

The PLD Political Committee initially agreed to present just six possible candidates for the party's nomination for the presidency in 2012 to the Central Committee because a proposal to add the name of First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez had been rejected. According to El Caribe, the decision to register the First Lady's presidential bid came about as a sort of imposition by the majority of the Central Committee, sponsored principally by PLD members from overseas. The Central Committee met last Sunday but a day earlier, Saturday 8 April, the Political Committee met to go over some of the details and in this meeting the proposal to present the First Lady came up after the decision by President Fernandez against running was announced. However, the proposal was rejected and it was decided that just six candidates would be sent to the Central Committee. During the meeting of the Central Committee, the representatives from New Jersey, New York and Boston that suggested that Ligia Amada Melo propose the name of Margarita Cedeno.

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