Miguel Vargas heads voting with 87.31%; Guido at 7.27%
Gomez Mazara says that he is ready to challenge the process
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. The president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Miguel Vargas Maldonado, let the voting in the XXX Ordinary Convention, with 160,002 votes, 87.31% of the 193,557 valid votes out of the 201,282 votes described in the first bulletin that was issued at 9:30 p.m.
Candidate Guido Gomez Mazara obtained14,089 votes, for a total o 7.27%, while Francisco Peña received 8,051 votes or 4.15%, and Juan Santos received 2,415 vote for 1.27%.
The organizing commission offered the first bulletin in the PRD National House, where the executive director, Juan Carlos Guerra, noted that there were 7.725 null votes in the 341 polling stations in which 538,478 persons on the voter rolls voted
For the post of secretary general, the organizing commission declared Junior Santos to be the winner, since his opponents, Andres Lugo and Carlos Gabriel Garcia, resigned.
The candidate for the national secretary for organization, Anibal Diaz Belliard, headed the voting with 79,976 votes, or 67.19%; Francisco Rosado reached 17,150 or almost 15%; Fausto Liz received 27,407 for 17.81% and Elvis Duarte Torres received 29 votes for 0.02%.
The votes counted at this level were about 115,500 and there were 114,500 valid votes and just 1000 null votes.
Second bulletin today
The president of the organizing commission of the convention, Julio Mariñez, said that this morning they will present the second bulletin with the partial results of the internal voting.
Mariñez explained that the vote counting for the national vice-presidents and deputy secretaries general is more complex than that of the A, B, or C levels to elect the president, secretary general and secretary of organization.
As he read bulletin zero, at 4:00 in the afternoon, Guerra said that those who voted all over the country in the convention are the authentic PRD rank and file that were registered on the voting rolls, and he assured reporters that in any event 70% of those registered, voted.
For his part, the PRD president, Miguel Vargas, in a later press conference, announced the appointment of a commission headed by Fulgencio Espinal, Nelson Marte, Salim Ibarra and Janet Camilo, which will investigate the violent incidents that affected some reporters that covered the election at the National House.
Miguel Vargas: "The vote counting ratify my position as president"
After the reading of the first bulletin, the president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, Miguel Vargas, held a press conference in which he said that the results in his computer center make him the winner with over 85% of the votes. He said that he accepts with responsibility an satisfaction this important victory which he said he won yesterday.
He accused his adversaries of sponsoring an "electoral gang" which was supposed to assault the National House as happened in January 2013.
Previously, at the moment of casting his vote, Vargas defined the election process as "successful and historical" and congratulated the Organizing Commission of the XXX Convention.
"This is a great job within the Organizing Commission and they worked with at a high level, in spite of the fact that there were sectors within the PRD that did not want this process to happen. This process is going to be historic, it is going to create a before and an after. Starting now the PRD, without a doubt, is going to constitute itself in the PRD of the national perspective and hope in the Dominican Republic," said Vargas Maldonado.
Regarding the fact that Guido Gomez Mazara did not vote (a candidate also for the party presidency), Vargas indicated "That here anyone can come and vote. But with respect and without violence. Here we let in anyone who had the right to vote. Fortunately, of 341 voting stations in the country, only in seven stations has there been incidents as in this case (National House)," said Vargas Maldonado.
Guido Gomez: "My lawyers have notarized acts"
In a press conference held two hours before the emission of the first bulletin by the Organizing Commission of th PRD Convention, Guido Gomez Mazara declared himself to be the winner and he told reporters that his lawyers have "all the notarized acts" to tear down the perversity, the farse and the lack of respect for the democratic norms."
"Starting now, I feel that I am the president of the PRD," he said as he answered questions from reporters at his mother's( Carmen Mazara) house.
According to Gomez Mazara, his candidacy for the presidency of the PRD was ahead in 22 municipalities where he said "they complied with the mandate from the Superior Electoral Tribunal with respect to the accreditation of the delegates." The PRD leader said that in those 22 cities, Vargas Maldonado receives 11.6% of the votes, while his candidacy received 86.9% of the votes.
"I believe in institutionalism and given the absence of a transparent process, any results that do not compare to what was defined by th sentences of the Superior Electoral Tribunal is null and void," he decreed.
At close to 10 o'clock in the morning, Gomez Mazara appeared at the National House with his mother, and after an incident which ended up with shots fired, he could not vote.
He accused the Organizing Commission of the Convention of acting "in a draconian fashion, proper for dictatorial mentalities."
Candidate Guido Gomez Mazara obtained14,089 votes, for a total o 7.27%, while Francisco Peña received 8,051 votes or 4.15%, and Juan Santos received 2,415 vote for 1.27%.
The organizing commission offered the first bulletin in the PRD National House, where the executive director, Juan Carlos Guerra, noted that there were 7.725 null votes in the 341 polling stations in which 538,478 persons on the voter rolls voted
For the post of secretary general, the organizing commission declared Junior Santos to be the winner, since his opponents, Andres Lugo and Carlos Gabriel Garcia, resigned.
The candidate for the national secretary for organization, Anibal Diaz Belliard, headed the voting with 79,976 votes, or 67.19%; Francisco Rosado reached 17,150 or almost 15%; Fausto Liz received 27,407 for 17.81% and Elvis Duarte Torres received 29 votes for 0.02%.
The votes counted at this level were about 115,500 and there were 114,500 valid votes and just 1000 null votes.
Second bulletin today
The president of the organizing commission of the convention, Julio Mariñez, said that this morning they will present the second bulletin with the partial results of the internal voting.
Mariñez explained that the vote counting for the national vice-presidents and deputy secretaries general is more complex than that of the A, B, or C levels to elect the president, secretary general and secretary of organization.
As he read bulletin zero, at 4:00 in the afternoon, Guerra said that those who voted all over the country in the convention are the authentic PRD rank and file that were registered on the voting rolls, and he assured reporters that in any event 70% of those registered, voted.
For his part, the PRD president, Miguel Vargas, in a later press conference, announced the appointment of a commission headed by Fulgencio Espinal, Nelson Marte, Salim Ibarra and Janet Camilo, which will investigate the violent incidents that affected some reporters that covered the election at the National House.
Miguel Vargas: "The vote counting ratify my position as president"
After the reading of the first bulletin, the president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, Miguel Vargas, held a press conference in which he said that the results in his computer center make him the winner with over 85% of the votes. He said that he accepts with responsibility an satisfaction this important victory which he said he won yesterday.
He accused his adversaries of sponsoring an "electoral gang" which was supposed to assault the National House as happened in January 2013.
Previously, at the moment of casting his vote, Vargas defined the election process as "successful and historical" and congratulated the Organizing Commission of the XXX Convention.
"This is a great job within the Organizing Commission and they worked with at a high level, in spite of the fact that there were sectors within the PRD that did not want this process to happen. This process is going to be historic, it is going to create a before and an after. Starting now the PRD, without a doubt, is going to constitute itself in the PRD of the national perspective and hope in the Dominican Republic," said Vargas Maldonado.
Regarding the fact that Guido Gomez Mazara did not vote (a candidate also for the party presidency), Vargas indicated "That here anyone can come and vote. But with respect and without violence. Here we let in anyone who had the right to vote. Fortunately, of 341 voting stations in the country, only in seven stations has there been incidents as in this case (National House)," said Vargas Maldonado.
Guido Gomez: "My lawyers have notarized acts"
In a press conference held two hours before the emission of the first bulletin by the Organizing Commission of th PRD Convention, Guido Gomez Mazara declared himself to be the winner and he told reporters that his lawyers have "all the notarized acts" to tear down the perversity, the farse and the lack of respect for the democratic norms."
"Starting now, I feel that I am the president of the PRD," he said as he answered questions from reporters at his mother's( Carmen Mazara) house.
According to Gomez Mazara, his candidacy for the presidency of the PRD was ahead in 22 municipalities where he said "they complied with the mandate from the Superior Electoral Tribunal with respect to the accreditation of the delegates." The PRD leader said that in those 22 cities, Vargas Maldonado receives 11.6% of the votes, while his candidacy received 86.9% of the votes.
"I believe in institutionalism and given the absence of a transparent process, any results that do not compare to what was defined by th sentences of the Superior Electoral Tribunal is null and void," he decreed.
At close to 10 o'clock in the morning, Gomez Mazara appeared at the National House with his mother, and after an incident which ended up with shots fired, he could not vote.
He accused the Organizing Commission of the Convention of acting "in a draconian fashion, proper for dictatorial mentalities."
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