Uncertainty opens debates in parties over candidates
Agreement proposed in PLD; there are difficulties in the PRM
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. One of the leaders of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD, Gedeon Santos, suggested yesterday that there is need for a tripartite agreement between President Danilo Medina and former President Leonel Fernandez and the Political Committee, in order to urge a constitutional reform that will permit the continuity of the current administration.
Santos, who is also president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), spoke during a conference organized by the National Commission of Intellectuals and Artists.
The official said that 74% of the population wants such a reform so that Medina can continue in power and for that, the support of Fernandez would be necessary.
"On one side there are the winds that are circulating in the Dominican Republic, but on the other side, there is the wave that has been raised by President Danilo Medina, a wave of changes, of transformations for the good of the country," he said.
He indicated that in the past, Medina and his team "blew this wind, they fanned of this wind so that he could achieve power and govern well," but he thinks that this is the moment in which the winds should push the wave because "the stronger the wind, the bigger will be the wave."
He estimated that the PLD legislators should put their ear to the heart of the people who he said, want reelection, according to the polls.
A lack of arbiters makes agreement difficult in the PRM
The lack of arbiters makes an agreement between the sectors of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) which is headed by former President Hipolito Mejia and Luis Abinader more difficult. Such an agreement is needed in order to establish the manner in which their presidential candidate is to be chosen.
The public disputes which both presidential projects exhibited last week have moved Abinader's campaign manager, Tony Peña Guaba, to call for talks in order to define the rules of the game, and at the same time he denied that they are now going to want a convention, as said by the Mejia group.
Peña Guaba regretted that there is not yet an agreement and he recalled that "what there was, was an agreement for polls. It seems that in the end Hipolito's comrades withdrew from this proposal, but it is on the table, if they are going to change this then we have to meet again in order that among all of us we find a solution to the problem of the presidential candidate."
Mejia and his sector are set on some primaries in which party members vote, but if this method is accepted the 2nd point of conflict will be the voter rolls that will be used, since the options presented by this group are the roles from the 2011 convention (questioned by Miguel Vargas) or the friendly committees created for the 2012 elections, which were mostly registered by the people of the former President.
It will be recalled that Abinader and Mejia appointed the former Vice President, Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Hugo Tolentino Dipp and Teofilo Tabar to work out a method of polls and other probable solutions, but this commission was stillborn because Mejia told them that he would only back democratic methods.
Luis Abinader, made it clear that it is not he who has proposed the polls as a methodology to elect the candidate, but rather Andres Bautista, who has been chosen by himself and Mejia as the president of the new opposition party.
"The method of the surveys, or polls, is perhaps more democratic than the primaries because there, there will be a representation of all of the electorate without influences of any type, the surveys and polls are not only legal, but are legitimate," he emphasized.
Santos, who is also president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), spoke during a conference organized by the National Commission of Intellectuals and Artists.
The official said that 74% of the population wants such a reform so that Medina can continue in power and for that, the support of Fernandez would be necessary.
"On one side there are the winds that are circulating in the Dominican Republic, but on the other side, there is the wave that has been raised by President Danilo Medina, a wave of changes, of transformations for the good of the country," he said.
He indicated that in the past, Medina and his team "blew this wind, they fanned of this wind so that he could achieve power and govern well," but he thinks that this is the moment in which the winds should push the wave because "the stronger the wind, the bigger will be the wave."
He estimated that the PLD legislators should put their ear to the heart of the people who he said, want reelection, according to the polls.
A lack of arbiters makes agreement difficult in the PRM
The lack of arbiters makes an agreement between the sectors of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) which is headed by former President Hipolito Mejia and Luis Abinader more difficult. Such an agreement is needed in order to establish the manner in which their presidential candidate is to be chosen.
The public disputes which both presidential projects exhibited last week have moved Abinader's campaign manager, Tony Peña Guaba, to call for talks in order to define the rules of the game, and at the same time he denied that they are now going to want a convention, as said by the Mejia group.
Peña Guaba regretted that there is not yet an agreement and he recalled that "what there was, was an agreement for polls. It seems that in the end Hipolito's comrades withdrew from this proposal, but it is on the table, if they are going to change this then we have to meet again in order that among all of us we find a solution to the problem of the presidential candidate."
Mejia and his sector are set on some primaries in which party members vote, but if this method is accepted the 2nd point of conflict will be the voter rolls that will be used, since the options presented by this group are the roles from the 2011 convention (questioned by Miguel Vargas) or the friendly committees created for the 2012 elections, which were mostly registered by the people of the former President.
It will be recalled that Abinader and Mejia appointed the former Vice President, Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Hugo Tolentino Dipp and Teofilo Tabar to work out a method of polls and other probable solutions, but this commission was stillborn because Mejia told them that he would only back democratic methods.
Luis Abinader, made it clear that it is not he who has proposed the polls as a methodology to elect the candidate, but rather Andres Bautista, who has been chosen by himself and Mejia as the president of the new opposition party.
"The method of the surveys, or polls, is perhaps more democratic than the primaries because there, there will be a representation of all of the electorate without influences of any type, the surveys and polls are not only legal, but are legitimate," he emphasized.
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