DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

In the Dominican Republic politicians have it easy. Congress legislated years ago obliging taxpayers to pick up the tab for most political activities.

Electoral Law 20/23 establishes that political parties receive double the resources that are assigned to them in non-electoral years. In this election year, 2024, the political parties will be getting RD$2.5 billion in revenues.

Electoral Regime Law 33-18 establishes that 80% of the total allotment to political parties should be distributed equally among the political parties that received more than 5% of valid votes in the 2020 general election. This 2024, the JCE will distribute RD$2.016 billion, or RD$504,160,000 each to the four parties receiving the most votes in the 2020 general elections. The parties meeting this criterion were the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), People’s...