Interesting questions/answers lost in a not so interesting thread.
Anyone care to comment?
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Here are a few questions that have not been answered by the electoral board and international watchers>
1/ How is it possible that the PRD party which got less than 50% of the votes got 29 senators out of a possible 31, while the other two parties combined got over 55% of the vote for only two senators?
2/ How is it possible that in most local electoral boards many PRD senatorial candidates got more votes than their mayoralty candidate counterparts when two ballots were handed to every voter and voters were practicly forced to cast both ballots. The differences were large in most cases and ballots voided did not account for the difference.
3/ Why was the voting count in Santiago and Santo Domingo delayed for days when both were the first to report and complete their tallies?
Here are also some interesting findings>
While the PRD party claimed a huge political victory by winning most individual races, the combined votes of the PLD and PRSC party exceed by far the PRD votes. The majority of the people still reject the chopo party and will continue to do so as long as the middle class continues to grow.
45% of the country's vote is in two cities, Santo Domingo and Santiago. The PLD party ran evenly with the PRD party in this area by itself. With a simple coalition with the PRSC party the PRD would not have gotten even 4 senators.
The PRSC party has only three options now. Balaguer has to abdicate and continue to have his party be a franchise of the PRD for the sake of patronage until his party finally dissappears/The Reformist party was all but a rubber stamp for the PRD\ or try to go on its own and risk again coming last/ a sure thing/ during the presidential election and face eventual doom of the party, or do the smart thing and merge with the PLD, negotiate a future long term alliance to return to power.
When and if the PRD absorbs the PRSC, it will be a paper deal. Reformists are mostly middle and upper class people who will not vote for the PRD anyway. If the Reformist party dissappears, its followers will in its majority end up in the PLD.
Only Hipolito Mejia as a candidate again can put together enough strength to fight back Leonel Fernandez candidacy. Once this guy Leonel gets on the road to campaign, hardly anyone else can match him on the campaign trail. The PRD has two years more in government and there are more chances to blow it now than to get more voters. The PRD has no excuses now with control of every facet of the government. Chances are electricity will only worsen, garbage will continue to pile up, prices will inch up higher and higher and corruption will double with more loans being approved.
Hipolito faces no honeymoon from the voters.
Anyone care to comment?
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Here are a few questions that have not been answered by the electoral board and international watchers>
1/ How is it possible that the PRD party which got less than 50% of the votes got 29 senators out of a possible 31, while the other two parties combined got over 55% of the vote for only two senators?
2/ How is it possible that in most local electoral boards many PRD senatorial candidates got more votes than their mayoralty candidate counterparts when two ballots were handed to every voter and voters were practicly forced to cast both ballots. The differences were large in most cases and ballots voided did not account for the difference.
3/ Why was the voting count in Santiago and Santo Domingo delayed for days when both were the first to report and complete their tallies?
Here are also some interesting findings>
While the PRD party claimed a huge political victory by winning most individual races, the combined votes of the PLD and PRSC party exceed by far the PRD votes. The majority of the people still reject the chopo party and will continue to do so as long as the middle class continues to grow.
45% of the country's vote is in two cities, Santo Domingo and Santiago. The PLD party ran evenly with the PRD party in this area by itself. With a simple coalition with the PRSC party the PRD would not have gotten even 4 senators.
The PRSC party has only three options now. Balaguer has to abdicate and continue to have his party be a franchise of the PRD for the sake of patronage until his party finally dissappears/The Reformist party was all but a rubber stamp for the PRD\ or try to go on its own and risk again coming last/ a sure thing/ during the presidential election and face eventual doom of the party, or do the smart thing and merge with the PLD, negotiate a future long term alliance to return to power.
When and if the PRD absorbs the PRSC, it will be a paper deal. Reformists are mostly middle and upper class people who will not vote for the PRD anyway. If the Reformist party dissappears, its followers will in its majority end up in the PLD.
Only Hipolito Mejia as a candidate again can put together enough strength to fight back Leonel Fernandez candidacy. Once this guy Leonel gets on the road to campaign, hardly anyone else can match him on the campaign trail. The PRD has two years more in government and there are more chances to blow it now than to get more voters. The PRD has no excuses now with control of every facet of the government. Chances are electricity will only worsen, garbage will continue to pile up, prices will inch up higher and higher and corruption will double with more loans being approved.
Hipolito faces no honeymoon from the voters.