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06-27-2011, 02:10 PM
The preliminary vote count in the elections for the ruling PLD party presidential candidate shows Danilo Medina in the lead with an overwhelming 87.75%.
The 2010 Constitution has enabled former President Hipolito Mejia to run again. Thus, in an unexpected turn of events, Medina will be running against Mejia, who beat him in the 2000 election.
In his acceptance speech, Medina declared that he had conquered the challenge of unifying his party, and that his next challenge was to unify the country. In his acceptance speech he thanked the presidential couple for what he termed their "sacrifice". He said that when the First Lady Margarita Cedeno decided not to run, she sacrificed the presidential candidacy in favor of party unity.
The other pre-candidates, Francisco Dominguez Brito, Jose Tomas Perez and Radhames Segura joined in the celebrations of Medina's victory and forecast that Medina would be the next President in 2012.
"Danilo Medina has been a valuable gladiator in the PLD... with the PLD united as it is, we are sure our party will maintain its achievements and will remain in power in 2012," said Jose Tomas Perez, as quoted in El Caribe.
"The future is ours, the future is of the Dominican Republic. The future is in the hands of Danilo Medina," said Dominguez Brito, first to acknowledge Medina's victory.
PLD members also voted in the plebiscite in favor of extending the PLD Political Committee's mandate for another five years. The vote ensured that President Leonel Fernandez will continue as party president, Reinaldo Pared Perez as secretary general, Felix Bautista as organizational secretary, and the 406 members of the Central Committee will remain as well as the 26 members of the Political Committee. Their terms had expired in 2010.
As reported in El Caribe, with the votes counted for 1,078 stations (33.76% of the total vote), 198,411 members had voted for the continuation of the authorities (66.68%) and 99,167 (33.32%) had voted for change.
The 20 May 2012 election between Medina (PLD) and Mejia (PRD) is expected to be a closely fought contest.
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The 2010 Constitution has enabled former President Hipolito Mejia to run again. Thus, in an unexpected turn of events, Medina will be running against Mejia, who beat him in the 2000 election.
In his acceptance speech, Medina declared that he had conquered the challenge of unifying his party, and that his next challenge was to unify the country. In his acceptance speech he thanked the presidential couple for what he termed their "sacrifice". He said that when the First Lady Margarita Cedeno decided not to run, she sacrificed the presidential candidacy in favor of party unity.
The other pre-candidates, Francisco Dominguez Brito, Jose Tomas Perez and Radhames Segura joined in the celebrations of Medina's victory and forecast that Medina would be the next President in 2012.
"Danilo Medina has been a valuable gladiator in the PLD... with the PLD united as it is, we are sure our party will maintain its achievements and will remain in power in 2012," said Jose Tomas Perez, as quoted in El Caribe.
"The future is ours, the future is of the Dominican Republic. The future is in the hands of Danilo Medina," said Dominguez Brito, first to acknowledge Medina's victory.
PLD members also voted in the plebiscite in favor of extending the PLD Political Committee's mandate for another five years. The vote ensured that President Leonel Fernandez will continue as party president, Reinaldo Pared Perez as secretary general, Felix Bautista as organizational secretary, and the 406 members of the Central Committee will remain as well as the 26 members of the Political Committee. Their terms had expired in 2010.
As reported in El Caribe, with the votes counted for 1,078 stations (33.76% of the total vote), 198,411 members had voted for the continuation of the authorities (66.68%) and 99,167 (33.32%) had voted for change.
The 20 May 2012 election between Medina (PLD) and Mejia (PRD) is expected to be a closely fought contest.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)