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The President might be feeling out the panorama on reelection request

Alburquerque assures PLD doesn't have the votes to reform

SANTO DOMINGO. By allowing his closest and most trusted circle to promote his reelection, President Danilo Medina might be in a process of feeling out the social movement and the political cost regarding the decision, whose principal hurdle would be faced in the National Congress.

According to political scientists Daniel Pou and Freddy Angel Castro, the President does not completely discard a possible reelection, and as a cautious person, he waits for the media reactions before making any announcement on the issue.

Nevertheless, the panorama for Rafael Alburquerque, the former Vice President of the Republic, and a part of the team that is promoting former President Leonel Fernandez, the issue is more complex, and he warns that the problem is not time, but rather the Constitution, whose reform he says must have the favorable votes of the legislators that follow Miguel Vargas, Hipolito Mejia and Luis Abinader.

He argues that the Constitution prohibits reelection, and that its modification implies the consenting vote of two-thirds of the Congressional membership, and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) does not have sufficient numbers in order to achieve a reform.

"You will have to ask Hipolito Mejia, Miguel Vargas Maldonado and Luis Abinader if they are willing for the votes that they control, as the heads of different currents, to be available to give to the PLD bloc. The Constitution is reformed by the Revision Assembly, the problem is not time, it is the Constitution," he emphasized.

Pou's theory is that Medina is observing the landscape to see if it produces a social movement of importance with regard to his re-nomination. "He is waiting for the precise moment to speak," he assured reporters.

"A professional politician first has to observe, he has to evaluate and he has to take into account a very important element, Danilo emerges on the political scene, not by a circumstance, Medina was a party activist, he was the chief of the political structure in terms of action, he is not a man who only listens to those around him,; he takes in a lot of information from circles which at a certain time are not near him," he noted.

While Castro suggests that the President is considering the movement of the economic, social and religious forces of the country with relation to this issue, as well is how opposition is expressed by some senators with regard to an eventual constitutional reform.

"Until now one of the principal complications would be that Medina does not have sufficient votes in Congress in order to achieve the reform," he said.