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06-28-2011, 02:30 PM
In the PLD primaries held last Sunday to elect the presidential candidate for the 2012 elections, 1,063,617 members of the rank and file voted, they represented 47.23% of the 2,251,831 people registered in the party. According to the final bulletin, Number 3, issued last night by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), with 100% of the votes counted, Danilo Medina earned the victory with 907,015 votes (87.18%; Jose Tomas Perez obtained 52,190 votes (5.02%); Francisco Dominguez Brito got 44,967 votes (4.32%) and Radhames Segura received 36,176 votes (3.48%).
Diario Libre reported that the votes received by Medina were the most achieved by a nomination hopeful in the history of the PLD primaries, since the year 2003, when this method was first used to choose the candidate. In the primaries that year, held on 29 June, President Leonel Fernandez won by a wide margin, receiving 416,102 of the 493,284 votes cast, 87.19%, against the 58,807 votes cast for the closest competitor, Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal. For those primaries, the PLD voting rolls had 863,000 members listed. In the convention of 6 May 2007, in which 1,169,913 people were enrolled in the PLD, only 574,297 voted and Fernandez defeated Medina when he received 71.55% of the votes (403,577 against 160,505) with Medina obtaining 28.45%.
According to the final bulletin of the CNE, 690,433 (67.21%) voted for the "Yes" option, supporting the proposal of the Political Committee and the Central Committee that the current party leaders remain in their posts for five more years. On the other hand, the "NO" vote was 336,890 (32.79%). The plebiscite saw 1,062,407 votes issued, of which 1,027,323 were valid and 35,084 were voided. Last night, PLD press secretary Hector Olivo reported that the CNE had been working until 6:26pm yesterday when they issued the last bulletin. After the final vote count, he said all that remained for the National Electoral Commission to do was to deliver the report to the Political Committee so it could plan the delegates' convention where Medina will be officially proclaimed as the PLD presidential candidate.
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Diario Libre reported that the votes received by Medina were the most achieved by a nomination hopeful in the history of the PLD primaries, since the year 2003, when this method was first used to choose the candidate. In the primaries that year, held on 29 June, President Leonel Fernandez won by a wide margin, receiving 416,102 of the 493,284 votes cast, 87.19%, against the 58,807 votes cast for the closest competitor, Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal. For those primaries, the PLD voting rolls had 863,000 members listed. In the convention of 6 May 2007, in which 1,169,913 people were enrolled in the PLD, only 574,297 voted and Fernandez defeated Medina when he received 71.55% of the votes (403,577 against 160,505) with Medina obtaining 28.45%.
According to the final bulletin of the CNE, 690,433 (67.21%) voted for the "Yes" option, supporting the proposal of the Political Committee and the Central Committee that the current party leaders remain in their posts for five more years. On the other hand, the "NO" vote was 336,890 (32.79%). The plebiscite saw 1,062,407 votes issued, of which 1,027,323 were valid and 35,084 were voided. Last night, PLD press secretary Hector Olivo reported that the CNE had been working until 6:26pm yesterday when they issued the last bulletin. After the final vote count, he said all that remained for the National Electoral Commission to do was to deliver the report to the Political Committee so it could plan the delegates' convention where Medina will be officially proclaimed as the PLD presidential candidate.
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