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05-21-2012, 01:20 PM
With the 10th bulletin and 99.11% of the vote counted from 14,341 polling stations of a total 14,470, the ruling PLD candidate, Danilo Medina obtained 51.24% of the vote against 46.93% for the PRD candidate, former President Hipolito Mejia. The PLD received 2,302,746 votes, compared to 2,109,123 votes for the PRD.
Of the minority parties, Guillermo Moreno (Alianza Pais) leads with 61,500 votes (1.37%), Eduardo Estrella of Dominicanos por el Cambio with 9,052 (0.20%), Julian Serulle (Frente Amplio) with 6,386 (0.14%) and Max Puig of the APD with 4,981 (0.11%).
According to the 10th bulletin, 4,493,788 Dominicans out of a possible 6,502,968 had voted, a 31% abstention rate. The tenth bulletin was issued at 5:48am and the final one is pending.
The elections day was marked by a massive demonstration of civism, as is usual with the Dominican people. Another major plus this time was the flow of information, and the record-breaking vote count.
While the website of the JCE was many times down, the media maintained the flow of information provided by the bulletins and the live reports on vote counts by district on TV and online.
This was an election of tactics and strategies. The PLD was the big winner, starting from its success in negotiating the changing of the Constitution with the PRD to allow for former Presidents to run again. The previous constitution was similar to the US constitution, where Presidents are only allowed to run for re-election once.
The change allowed President Leonel Fernandez to be the candidate again in 2016 and President Hipolito Mejia to run in 2012. Media analysts speculated that the PLD had chosen its rival, and covertly worked for the victory of Mejia in the PRD primaries. Mejia was considered a weaker candidate for the party than Miguel Vargas.
Miguel Vargas never joined his party's campaign, preferring to keep a low profile. News reporters made the point he cast his vote in the last hour of the poll.
When the first campaign polls were published, Medina was lagging behind Mejia, but in the final months, President Leonel Fernandez put aside his differences with party dissident Danilo Medina and joined the campaign for the victory of the PLD, revving the PLD machinery behind the candidate. First Lady Margarita Cedeno was chosen as Vice Presidential candidate, a move that was said to have unified the party towards the end. Cedeno sought the presidential nomination in 2011 but at the end stood down in favor of Medina.
Fernandez went on to campaign aggressively for the party. Listin Diario published a victory photo showing Danilo Medina and Margarita Cedeno together celebrating the victory, with Medina's wife, Candy to his right, and San Juan Senator Felix Bautista, the controversial leading PLD businessman, to his left. National District Senator Reynaldo Pared Perez and architect Eduardo Selman are also in the front line with Medina.
Danilo Medina reaches the Presidency in his third attempt. A former Secretary of Staff of President Leonel Fernandez during the latter's 1996-2000 Presidency, Danilo Medina lost to Hipolito Mejia in the 2004 presidential election, when President Leonel Fernandez remained on the sidelines. In 2006, Danilo Medina sought the PLD presidential nomination, competing against Fernandez.
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Of the minority parties, Guillermo Moreno (Alianza Pais) leads with 61,500 votes (1.37%), Eduardo Estrella of Dominicanos por el Cambio with 9,052 (0.20%), Julian Serulle (Frente Amplio) with 6,386 (0.14%) and Max Puig of the APD with 4,981 (0.11%).
According to the 10th bulletin, 4,493,788 Dominicans out of a possible 6,502,968 had voted, a 31% abstention rate. The tenth bulletin was issued at 5:48am and the final one is pending.
The elections day was marked by a massive demonstration of civism, as is usual with the Dominican people. Another major plus this time was the flow of information, and the record-breaking vote count.
While the website of the JCE was many times down, the media maintained the flow of information provided by the bulletins and the live reports on vote counts by district on TV and online.
This was an election of tactics and strategies. The PLD was the big winner, starting from its success in negotiating the changing of the Constitution with the PRD to allow for former Presidents to run again. The previous constitution was similar to the US constitution, where Presidents are only allowed to run for re-election once.
The change allowed President Leonel Fernandez to be the candidate again in 2016 and President Hipolito Mejia to run in 2012. Media analysts speculated that the PLD had chosen its rival, and covertly worked for the victory of Mejia in the PRD primaries. Mejia was considered a weaker candidate for the party than Miguel Vargas.
Miguel Vargas never joined his party's campaign, preferring to keep a low profile. News reporters made the point he cast his vote in the last hour of the poll.
When the first campaign polls were published, Medina was lagging behind Mejia, but in the final months, President Leonel Fernandez put aside his differences with party dissident Danilo Medina and joined the campaign for the victory of the PLD, revving the PLD machinery behind the candidate. First Lady Margarita Cedeno was chosen as Vice Presidential candidate, a move that was said to have unified the party towards the end. Cedeno sought the presidential nomination in 2011 but at the end stood down in favor of Medina.
Fernandez went on to campaign aggressively for the party. Listin Diario published a victory photo showing Danilo Medina and Margarita Cedeno together celebrating the victory, with Medina's wife, Candy to his right, and San Juan Senator Felix Bautista, the controversial leading PLD businessman, to his left. National District Senator Reynaldo Pared Perez and architect Eduardo Selman are also in the front line with Medina.
Danilo Medina reaches the Presidency in his third attempt. A former Secretary of Staff of President Leonel Fernandez during the latter's 1996-2000 Presidency, Danilo Medina lost to Hipolito Mejia in the 2004 presidential election, when President Leonel Fernandez remained on the sidelines. In 2006, Danilo Medina sought the PLD presidential nomination, competing against Fernandez.
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